8989vision·Aug 17, 2023
https://github.com/zio/zio-quill
This library does exactly what you prescribe. Pretty sure under the hood it's using macros with string templates
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Compile-time Language Integrated Queries for Scala
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7 sourcesI would use it at work because I know it. There are a LOT of libraries in Scala for HTTP up to database stuff, and it really depends on what kind of ecosystem you're walking into:
* Scala as Python: https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/cask, maybe https://github.com/getquill/quill
* Scala as Haskell: HTTP4s, https://tpolecat.github.io/doobie/
* Scala as Rails: Play
Play is the closest thing to Rails-like CRUD productivity IMO, and honestly for CRUD most times I would like to write as little code as possible and just get it done, even using low/no-code solutions (postgrest, hasura, htmx), but that wasn't the question :)
In Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app on the JVM today?I can’t speak for others, but scala’s has two of the best sql db libs I ever used, namely doobie and quill.
https://github.com/getquill/quill
https://tpolecat.github.io/doobie/
In Problems with JPA/HibernateAngular, TypeScript, Ionic.
After working with Scala for 7 years and Scala.js for the last 3 years, a side project led me to learn what life is like on the frontend outside of Scala.
TypeScript is an impressive language, really like union types, string literals, and to some degree structural typing. Development is fairly friction-free, and VS Code is a breath of fresh air compared to cumbersome IDE support in Scala.
As for Angular + Ionic, generally terrible, but I'm not a fan of heavy frameworks. You can create cross platform apps, yes, but performance and development speed leave something to be desired -- Scala is known to have a fairly slow compile/reload dev cycle, but Ionic + Webpack is on an entirely different level of slow.
Looking at Scala + Scala.js + Cordova + Sqlite as a possible stack for cross platform apps that use Quill[1],
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a type safe query DSL, on backend and frontend.
[1] https://github.com/getquill/quill
> Scala doesn't have anything like this where the query is compiled monadically before execution
Nonsense, Scala is arguably leading the way in the statically typed composable query dsl department; see Slick [1] and Quill [2] among others.
Outside of Haskell's Esqueleto I am not aware of any statically typed query dsl that comes remotely close to the aforementioned. LINQ to SQL/Objects provides static query generation but doesn't compose; beyond that, what is there?
[1] https://github.com/slick/slick
[2] https://github.com/getquill/quill
In The SQL filter clause: selective aggregatesComparison between Quill and other Cassandra libraries in Scala
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