Simulacrum VS Scalaz

Compare Simulacrum vs Scalaz and see what are their differences.

Simulacrum

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

Scalaz

Principled Functional Programming in Scala (by scalaz)
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Simulacrum Scalaz
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940 4,653
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0.0 8.4
about 1 year ago 8 days ago
Scala Scala
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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.

Scalaz

Posts with mentions or reviews of Scalaz. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-29.
  • Going into year 2 of Software Development Foundation Degree, have a particular liking for OOP and SQL, any tips, info or pointers on where to go from there?
    2 projects | /r/cscareerquestions | 29 May 2023
    I'm sorry, but have you ever done functional programming for a real company, like in a functional programming language like Haskell, Scala, or F#? Have you ever used Scala cats or scalaz? Have you ever learned category theory and how to apply its abstractions in software? Listen u/judethedude2106 this person hasn't gone as far down the functional programming rabbit hole as I have. Beyond learning the basics like the difference between pure and impure functions, what are closures, what higher order functions are and the most common ones like .map, .filter, and .flatmap, the immutable collections like immutable linked lists and trees, and what a Monad is and common monads like those used for futures/promises, async programming, and Option (Some or None, which is used instead of null checking), the more advanced functional programming stuff like category theory based abstractions are totally useless for real jobs and is just a giant time suck. Don't waste years on functional programming, spend at most a few months on it and no more.
  • Typeclasses explained in Java
    3 projects | dev.to | 27 Jul 2022
    If I managed to gain you interest you can take a look at one of the following libraries like cats, scalaz for scala and vavr for java which contain type class definitions and implementations for common types.
  • In Search of the Best Functional Programming Back-End: 2021 Update
    4 projects | dev.to | 24 Jan 2021
    I’ve specifically had 2 job offers internally at my company because of this language. First with Cats and Scalaz and now with ZIO, Scala has taken the best parts of Haskell, the best parts of Scala, and made it really nice to work with. You can barely see the OOP leftovers.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Simulacrum and Scalaz you can also consider the following projects:

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

Shapeless - Generic programming for Scala

Monocle - Optics library for Scala

ScalaTest - A testing tool for Scala and Java developers

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

better-files - Simple, safe and intuitive Scala I/O

Ammonite-Ops - Scala Scripting

Twitter Util - Wonderful reusable code from Twitter

Enumeratum - A type-safe, reflection-free, powerful enumeration implementation for Scala with exhaustive pattern match warnings and helpful integrations.

refined - Refinement types for Scala

Persist-Logging - Scala Logging Library