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Was asked to look into GraphQL on the server for Scala, is there any typelevel compatible library out there? CATs in sangria seems to refer to something entirely different...
From what I can tell sangria is also pretty tightly coupled to the lightbend stack -- slick and friends
and there was an issue yesterday about not hardcoding Future
the author wasn't entirely opposed to it, but I think you're not going to have a great out of the box experience integrating that with cats-effect...
oops, maybe I should've written on the #cats room
but only for the
DBIO alias
so not if you want to stream
Hey everyone, our comrade Sam Halliday aka @fommil has finished his free book on FP in Scala! All of the content is applicable to and features alot of interoperation topics for typelevel libraries https://leanpub.com/fpmortals
@mpilquist ?
I don’t think there’s another resolution there. I’m happy to see another book on FP and applaud the enormous effort required to write it. I also applaud the choice in publishing model and license and hope folks learn a bunch from it. On the other hand, there are unresolved issues between Sam and some folks that work on Cats and I completely understand objections to 2437 based on incidents from the past few months. I’m happy to discuss more if there’s good faith in desiring a different outcome.
My pov is this - this is a fantastic book. 99% of scala users will not have heard of, nor care to engage in the politics of Typelevel vs. Lightbend vs. Scalaz vs. What have you. This hurts those users, and harms the overall adoption of FP in Scala. Whether Scalaz likes it or not, Typelevel has the broadest outreach platform of the two FP libraries contending for space in Scala. As such, and since this book does not have content which actively opposes Typelevel principles, I think it would be in everyone’s best interest to support the book. In fact, many Typelevel people do and have. I think the author having spats with specific typelevel folks should be disregarded. We’re an incredibly small ecosystem, and people still have to fight every day at their jobs just to have FP considered, let alone which FP lib’s politics they should support.
there are plenty of books we could be recommending of higher quality as well.
I don’t think that the way it describes cats is accurate
I can talk to john about it
@mpilquist and for the record, I do appreciate you being in there. It does seem to tone it down
Getting away from the book link topic for a moment... Most people in both communities are doing their personal best to build cool FP stuff, often unpaid and at some sacrifice to other activities. Negativity can be really draining and demotivating, especially when it feels unwarranted or not based in fact from perspective of the receiver.
I think being above the fray is the best way. Scala really needs the FP community and I think the two are coming together slowly. The book is good and helps people like me learn FP which is good for everyone. I believe Sam is a good guy just with a lot of change and frustrations.
I don’t post here often and when I do its usually asking for help or guidance, typelevel/cats#2437 this is a mad decision. Its a good book with good general fp guidance. I have tried the other books in the resources list of the cats site to varying degrees and while I am sure everyone of them laid the foundations nothing made so many concepts and ideas click as the fp for mortals book did. As a direct result it is highly likely that my company will be putting both cats and scalaz into production this month.
The number of people who give a shit about the politics in the scala community is tiny compared to the number of people you are doing a disservice to by deliberately hiding a valuable learning resource from them
Ultimately you are harming the community you are trying to protect
peace
Trying to ignore politics only helps those who already have power. Perhaps there aren’t that many in the Scala community who give a shit about the politics, but that is at least partially because parts of the Scala community (and the larger FP community as well) have squeezed out the people whom the politics affect the most. A significant (possibly the most significant) goal of Typelevel is to improve that and be more inclusive of those who are marginalized by the dominant politics. It’s true that terrible people can create good things (not trying to call Sam “terrible” here, just making a more general point), but it can be difficult to separate the person from their work. And while there might be some way to make a more nuanced decision in the future, I think that the current issue was closed appropriately (and it also seems from Sam’s own comments on the issue that he doesn’t have a particular interest in having it linked anyway).
I hate coming into this room. Because I don't feel welcome, and I think it is an aggressive channel. But I don't appreciate have words put in my mouth by anybody, in this case Kailo.
There are already books on your website that do not use cats, mine is no different.
I am not seeking anybody's endorsement. I am not motivated by sales. I don't even think the Typelevel website would drive sales, even if I was. So don't waste any effort thinking about it.
That said, I would obviously be happy to see my book recommended. But it's not something I'm seeking from any of you. If anything it's already been "anti-recommended" by somebody who hasn't read it, but that reflects more on him that me.
@mtomko converting those early chapters from cats to scalaz was as simple as changing the imports. What exactly am I being disengenuous about?
actually. I don't care. I only came in here to say what I said. And now I will leave.