Shapeless VS dotty

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Shapeless dotty
13 71
3,363 5,669
- 2.1%
7.4 10.0
1 day ago 2 days ago
Scala Scala
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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Shapeless

Posts with mentions or reviews of Shapeless. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-06.
  • Question regarding Recursive datatypes and cats typeclasses (Haskell to Scala)
    3 projects | /r/scala | 6 Jul 2023
    Scala 2-only: * Shapeless (there is Shapeless for Scala 3 but less often needed as basic things are in Scala 3)
  • Is there the equivalent of this in Scala ? (Maps to Struct)
    1 project | /r/scala | 27 Dec 2022
    This is the FromMap typeclass in Shapeless. Note that there’s a companion syntax package for it providing .toRecord for any Map and an appropriately-structured Record (and a Record is the LabelledGeneric representation of a case class).
  • Scala 3: modifying product types in compile-time
    1 project | /r/scala | 14 Jul 2022
    If that's what you want, you can use Shapeless' records and HList. You can probably replicate this in plain Scala 3 with tuples and literal types as you said. It won't play nice with your others libs though but maybe there are integrations.
  • Does Scala have support for Dependent types?
    1 project | /r/scala | 19 Jun 2022
    See the Shapeless Sized example.
  • How does Scala's type system compare to TypeScript's? Is it as powerful?
    1 project | /r/scala | 19 Jun 2022
    Shapeless has Sized: https://github.com/milessabin/shapeless/blob/v2.3.9/core/src/main/scala/shapeless/sized.scala
  • Fp libraries that target scala 3 exclusively?
    5 projects | /r/scala | 22 Nov 2021
    I know that libraries like Scodec and shapeless were rewritten practically from scratch for Scala 3, taking advantage of the next syntax and internals, as well as protoquill - a Scala 3 implementation of Quill.
  • Delphi 11 Alexandria Has Been Released
    4 projects | /r/programming | 23 Sep 2021
    please show me something like this: https://akka.io/ or this: https://zio.dev/ or this: https://github.com/milessabin/shapeless
  • 6 Years of Professional Clojure
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Aug 2021
    That largely depends on the type system. Languages like Haskell and Scala which have much more powerful type systems than C/Java/Go/etc absolutely do allow you to do those sorts of things. It is a bit harder to wrap your head around to be sure and there are some rough edges, but once you get the hang of it you can get the benefits of static typing with the flexibility of dynamic typing. See https://github.com/milessabin/shapeless or a project that I've been working on a lot lately https://github.com/zio/zio-schema.
  • Scala3: Does it provide a simplified way of doing n-term generic parameters?
    2 projects | /r/scala | 6 Jun 2021
    Just use cats and use the apply syntax .mapN for this. Seriously. There isn't a way to do it without generating source code that I can see in the api. Scala 3's HList Tuples aren't like Shapeless 2's HLists and I can't figure out a way in the api to reduce the tuple members down from (A, B, C, D) into an E, generically, yet with Scala 3 poly functions, unlike what you could do in Shapeless 2 with HList
  • Scala: A Love Story
    4 projects | dev.to | 21 Apr 2021
    Scala has sparked a huge ecosystem of very high quality libraries (Cats, Scalaz, shapeless, to name but a few). I think a major reason for this is that Scala attracts developers who value the advantages of the JVM, but are fed up with the limitations of the Java programming language and understand the benefits of an expressive type system and functional programming.

dotty

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotty. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-13.
  • RustRover – A Standalone Rust IDE by JetBrains
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2023
    Dotty? Was it still the name later?

    http://dotty.epfl.ch/

  • Does the fthomas/refined library work differently in Scala 3?
    3 projects | /r/scala | 20 Jun 2023
    I think this might be related to this issue.
  • `boundary/break`: do you use it ? what do you do with it ?
    3 projects | /r/scala | 12 Jun 2023
    You can look (and EPFL collect feedback) about EPFL implementation of async/await: https://github.com/lampepfl/async. Also you can look at dotty ticket about this: https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/pull/16739
  • Iron updates: turning opaque types into value objects
    2 projects | /r/scala | 6 Jun 2023
    The reason I’m not currently an opaque type user as they do not play well with the tagless final style we use, though I am patiently awaiting some attention on my bug report: https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/issues/17281
  • Reconnecting with Scala. What's new?
    7 projects | /r/scala | 24 May 2023
    Links: - https://dotty.epfl.ch/ - https://scala-native.org/en/stable/ - https://www.scala-js.org/ - https://typelevel.org/ - https://zio.dev/ - https://github.com/scala-native/scala-native/pull/3120 - https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/pull/16517 - https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/experimental/index.html - https://scala-cli.virtuslab.org/ - https://scalameta.org/metals/ - https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/guides/migration/compatibility-intro.html - https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2023/04/18/faster-scalajs-development-with-frontend-tooling.html - https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2022/08/17/long-term-compatibility-plans.html
  • About Scala-Native
    4 projects | /r/scala | 13 Apr 2023
    Scala Native has much more control on how the Scala AST is compiled, and can easier workaround platform limitations, eg. lazy vals in Scala 3 required reflection config for Native Image (see this and that), while in Scala Native we could mitigate problems with unsupported usage inside in other ways within the compiler plugin.
  • I've started writing a book on Scala 3 Macros
    1 project | /r/scala | 17 Mar 2023
    By the way, you might be interested in this recent PR which overhauls the scala 3 macro docs: https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/pull/17060.
  • What is scala's modern Web API framework?
    5 projects | /r/scala | 7 Mar 2023
    For example, this issue (https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/issues/12840) was blocking the migration, it was reported more than a year ago and the fix was finally released a month ago (https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/releases/tag/3.3.0-RC2).
  • scala 3 does not have :javap. Does anyone have any tips how to get around this.
    2 projects | /r/scala | 22 Feb 2023
    For the record, there is an implementation of :javap which is close to being done but might need a volunteer to get it over the finish line: https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/pull/12210
  • Is the Scala Center really working on Scala 4?
    1 project | /r/scala | 30 Jan 2023
    im glad to tell you that in 3.3.0 a lot of these -Wunused lints will be supported: see https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/pull/16157

What are some alternatives?

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Monocle - Optics library for Scala

scalajs-benchmark - Benchmarks: write in Scala or JS, run in your browser. Live demo:

Scalaz - Principled Functional Programming in Scala

Mill - Your shiny new Java/Scala build tool!

Chimney - Scala library for boilerplate-free, type-safe data transformations

scalafmt - This repo is now a fork of --->

scala-newtype - NewTypes for Scala with no runtime overhead

Metals - Scala language server with rich IDE features 🚀