Enumeratum Alternatives

Enumeratum reviews and mentions

• How to implement `if-else if -else if -else` with cat effect IO in Scala?
  1 project | /r/scala | 16 May 2023

  I'm not sure I understand what Cats or cats-effect has to do with what you're trying to do. As far as I can tell, it sounds like what you're asking is simply "what's the best way to implement an enumerated type in Scala?" The best answer to that I'm aware of is Enumeratum.

• Concise enumeration in Scala
  1 project | /r/scala | 16 Feb 2023

  In Scala 2: enumeratum which is, essentially, option 3 from your post.

• Simple, Naïve, and Wrong: More than you wanted to know about Scala Case Classes
  3 projects | /r/scala | 26 Feb 2022

  And for exactly the same reasons one shouldn't override equals and hashCode in a case class, they shouldn't manually implement an enumeration and instead let a well-tested macro (2.x) or the compiler itself (3.x) handle reliably doing the automated code generation. The more code that is generated by the compiler, the smaller the defects, technical debt, and security vulnerability surface areas.

• A survey of programming language enum support
  2 projects | /r/programming | 21 Feb 2021

  For Scala, check out the enumeratum library (https://github.com/lloydmeta/enumeratum). In my opinion its the best enum implementation I know of. It has all the features defined in the table, and the syntax is really clean. It even supports unique associated values (eg. unique String/Int keys).

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