Scala Native vs Miniboxing

Scala Native

Your favorite language gets closer to bare metal. (by scala-native)

#Misc #Scala #Native #Aot #Llvm #Compiler #scala-native

Miniboxing is a program transformation that improves the performance of Scala generics when used with primitive types. It can speed up generic collections by factors between 1.5x and 22x, while maintaining bytecode duplication to a minimum. You can easily add miniboxing to your sbt project: (by miniboxing)

#Misc #Generics #Optimization #Jvm #Specialization #Arrays #Collections #user-defined-structures

Source Code

scala-miniboxing.org

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Scala Native		Miniboxing
	Project
7	Mentions	0
4,126	Stars	118
0.4%	Growth	0.8%
9.2	Activity	0.0
17 days ago	Latest Commit	about 2 years ago
Scala	Language	Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Scala Native

Posts with mentions or reviews of Scala Native. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-23.

What is Scala Native use case?
4 projects | reddit.com/r/scala | 23 Jan 2022

Until recently, there was only 64-bit support. 32-bit support is coming, though, see this pr. This means that you will be able to target 32-bit microcontrollers soon. Anything lower than 32-bit might not be realistic.
MIT Scheme on Apple Silicon
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Dec 2021
Scala 3 Native support was published
1 project | reddit.com/r/scala | 24 Dec 2021

The release is binary compatible with previous ones, but Scala 3 on its own does not fully source compatible - more info about that in https://github.com/scala-native/scala-native/pull/2480 The full release is planned for the first weeks of January.
Scala Native 0.4.1 is here!
1 project | reddit.com/r/scala | 22 Oct 2021
GoKart: A static analysis tool for securing Go code
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Aug 2021

Scala Native probably.
But I've never used it so not sure how mature it is.
https://scala-native.org/
The other Go alternative I see is D.
Close to the metal but with high level features. Runs in a managed runtime. Creates native code.
https://dlang.org/
ScalaNative + Python: any leads?
1 project | reddit.com/r/scala | 26 Jun 2021

see https://github.com/scala-native/scala-native/issues/155
Why Scala (still) hasn't missed the Android opportunity
4 projects | reddit.com/r/scala | 24 Mar 2021

It can be challenging to exchange ideas between the left and the right side of a brain, so sometimes you might not get the outcome you are hoping for. Is this the PR in question? Add support for 32-bit platforms through a linker-level switch by shadaj · Pull Request #1571 · scala-native/scala-native (github.com) I personally see no reason why SN should not be able to target wasm, especially as the target is LLVM, but..