Simulacrum VS Ammonite-Ops

Compare Simulacrum vs Ammonite-Ops and see what are their differences.

Simulacrum

First class syntax support for type classes in Scala (by typelevel)

Ammonite-Ops

Scala Scripting (by lihaoyi)
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Simulacrum Ammonite-Ops
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0.0 7.5
about 1 year ago 10 days ago
Scala Scala
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT License
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Simulacrum

Posts with mentions or reviews of Simulacrum. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-10.
  • Friction-less scala - Tell us what is causing friction in your day-to-day life with Scala
    14 projects | /r/scala | 10 Aug 2021
    The Cats ecosystem offers mature named abstractions providing algebraic laws virtually identical to those offered by Haskell and PureScript and that have stood the test of time, at the cost of relying on a "design pattern" approach to implementation you have to squint a bit to see ("typeclasses" based on higher-kinded types and implicit arguments) and that sometimes doesn't play nicely with Scala's colored local type inference. The selling point of this, coupled with parametricity ("tagless-final style"), is the ability to reason algebraically about your code.

Ammonite-Ops

Posts with mentions or reviews of Ammonite-Ops. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-13.
  • Scala Isn't Fun Anymore
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2022
    That's funny, because this is what I really like about Scala; how quick and easy it is to get a project started.

    > sbt new scala/scala3.g8

    will just create an empty project. If you don't even want to bother with a project, use use scala-cli or ammonite (http://ammonite.io/) to just start banging out code.

    Even the upgrading of a project from Scala2 to Scala3 is a breeze, thanks to very good backwards compatibility of new library releases.

  • A Python-compatible statically typed language erg-lang/erg
    27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Aug 2022
  • Scala 3 Reflection
    5 projects | /r/scala | 1 Feb 2022
    Scripting API is quite limited, so the third option. - reuse the ammonite scripts https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/Ammonite or look how this is implemented (using internal compiler API),
  • Audacity Fork Without Any Sentry Telemetry or Crash Reporting
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jul 2021
    Here's an example of a smaller project that added telemetry without suffering a fork:

    https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/Ammonite/issues/607

  • Scripting with Java – Improving Approachability
    2 projects | /r/java | 12 May 2021
    Or ammonite - I've ran Gatling performance test from a simple script based on this gist it fetches all the dependencies, compiles and runs the test, producing nice html report..
  • 25 years of OCaml
    3 projects | /r/programming | 10 May 2021
    Scala with the Typelevel ecosystem. Stay on the jVM, but have a much more pleasant and robust experience, including a great REPL.
  • The Scala ecosystem and circular dependencies?
    3 projects | /r/scala | 10 Apr 2021
    If you are installing, and you are learning, I would also recommend ammonite as an easier REPL.
  • IPython as a System Shell
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Apr 2021
    I've been using amm on and off https://ammonite.io/#Ammonite-Shell

    pretty nice if you know scala, still have to use regular shell(s) so I do not forget them

  • A Lisp REPL as my main shell
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Feb 2021
    I've never tested Ammonite, only read the https://ammonite.io/#Ammonite-Shell, so I'm only guessing here.

    From what I understand, Ammonite was designed as a "readline shell" as I wrote in the article. It perpetuates this approach that everything is a command.

    The thesis of my article suggests we do the opposite: I'm suggesting to rethink shells by starting from the interface (here the SLY REPL) and then implement the shell features.

    In particular, it seems that Ammonite does not support back-references and I'm not sure it has an interactive inspector.

    While Ammonite seems to be a definite improvement over the _syntax_ of Bash, etc., I'm not sure it brings much novelty in terms of user interface. But again, I know very little about it so I may have missed some features :)

    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Feb 2021
    I wonder what people think about Ammonite (https://ammonite.io/)?

    It's not Lisp but Scala so may not be the authors language of choice however it can be used as a Shell: https://ammonite.io/#Ammonite-Shell

    I am personally using it and compared to a classical shell like Bash it's really nice for more structured data related tasks (exploring some API, checking some data, creating a bunch of PRs at once, ...).

    It also makes use of Scala's adjustable syntax and functional concepts so you basically get shell piping but in a strongly typed fashion (e.g.

What are some alternatives?

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Shapeless - Generic programming for Scala

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cats - Lightweight, modular, and extensible library for functional programming.

scala.meta - Library to read, analyze, transform and generate Scala programs

Scala-Logging - Convenient and performant logging library for Scala wrapping SLF4J.

refined - Refinement types for Scala

ScalaTest - A testing tool for Scala and Java developers

Resolvable

Scala Graph - Graph for Scala is intended to provide basic graph functionality seamlessly fitting into the Scala Collection Library. Like the well known members of scala.collection, Graph for Scala is an in-memory graph library aiming at editing and traversing graphs, finding cycles etc. in a user-friendly way.

scribe - The fastest logging library in the world. Built from scratch in Scala and programmatically configurable.