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3,991 | 1,549 | |
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9.5 | 9.2 | |
about 19 hours ago | 3 days ago | |
Scala | Scala | |
Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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ZIO
- The golden age of Kotlin and its uncertain future
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I had a great experience with Scala and hopefully it will get more popular
scala has 2 healthy and pretty complete lib ecosystems : check out typelevel and ZIO. Both are FP oriented, which might not be your cup of tea at first glance but I would encourage you to try em out ! Softest introduction would be to start with the typelevel cats library and build up from there. The excellent Scala with Cats will ease you softly into an FP mindset. It's a bit dated and for scala 2 only but translating to Scala 3 is a very good exercise if you feel so inclined !
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Is it prudent to use Scala for anything new?
Last but not least, Scala is currently the language with one of the best effect systems in my opinion (https://zio.dev/). Kotlin for example has copied the approach with https://arrow-kt.io/ which I think is great actually. But when comparing Scala and Kotlin here, Scala wins by a large margin, it is a completely different world. It's like building a highly concurrent system in Erlang vs C.
Of course, if you don't want to learn things like union types, traits/typeclasses and effects (similar to async/await but more powerful) you will be annoyed by Scala. But once you learned them, you can never go back.
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How to get started?
ZIO
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Reconnecting with Scala. What's new?
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
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Why actors are a great fit for a data processing pipeline and how we use them for Quickwit's engine
For the Rx approach, The ZIO framework for Scala has a streaming API that can meet those sorts of requirements. e.g.
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How to build a Scala Zio CRUD Microservice
This tutorial will introduce how to build from scratch, a REST microservice using the ZIO framework, and examples of ZIO dependency injection, ZIO HTTP, JSON, JDBC, and others from the ZIO environment. The source code is available here
- Cuál lenguaje les da de comer, comunidad?
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Is Parallel Programming Hard, and, If So, What Can You Do About It? [pdf]
I use ZIO (http://zio.dev) for Scala which makes parallel programming trivial.
Wraps different styles of asynchronicity e.g. callbacks, futures, fibers into one coherent model. And has excellent resource management so you can be sure that when you are forking a task that it will always clean up after itself.
Have yet to see anything that comes close whilst still being practical i.e. you can leverage the very large ecosystem of Java libraries.
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40x Faster! We rewrote our project with Rust!
The one advantage Rust has over Scala is that it detects data races at compile time, and that's a big time saver if you use low level thread synchronization. However, if you write pure FP code with ZIO or Cats Effect that's basically a non-issue anyway.
skunk
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New to Scala;
The major performance issue with Skunk is tracked here. tl;dr prepared statements currently take a horrifying number of network round-trips to the database. I'm sympathetic to Rob's "what you see is what you get" priorities for Skunk. But I'm glad to see an outline of a plan that sounds like it would satisfy those objectives without being so, for lack of a better term, naïve in their pursuit.
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Pleasant to use Scala libraries
The same creator is working on skunk, which is very exciting. Only works for Postgres though.
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Zio / Zionomicon : is it worth it ?
The libraries doobie and skunk are more closely associated with cats. They both use cats-effect and fs2 for implementing database connectiona and input-output operations. The doobie library is a wrapper on JDBC, and as such is compatible with many DBMS, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, H2, Oracle... Whereas skunk is specific to PostgreSQL, and is based on using the server protocol of that database.
What are some alternatives?
cats-effect - The pure asynchronous runtime for Scala
doobie - Functional JDBC layer for Scala.
Monix - Asynchronous, Reactive Programming for Scala and Scala.js.
doobie-quill - Integration between Doobie and Quill libraries
Http4s - A minimal, idiomatic Scala interface for HTTP
zio-magic - Construct ZLayers automagically (w/ helpful compile-time errors)
Vert.x - Vert.x is a tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM
fly4s - A lightweight, simple and functional wrapper of Flyway using cats effect.
cats - Lightweight, modular, and extensible library for functional programming.
pfps-examples - :izakaya_lantern: Standalone examples shown in the book "Practical FP in Scala: A hands-on approach"
fs2-kafka - Functional Kafka Streams for Scala