Awesome Scala Native

A curated collection of resources and projects focused on Scala Native.

Contents

• Awesome Scala Native
  • Contents
  • Tutorials and Examples
  • Build Tools
  • Functional Programming
  • Unit Tests
  • Bindings
  • File Formats and Parsers
  • Databases
  • Web Development
  • Concurrency
  • Logging
  • Console
  • Robotics
  • Programs
  • Infrastructure
  • Licence

Tutorials and Examples

• Giter8 template for a minimal Scala Native project - Official Giter8 template for a minimal Scala Native project.
• Hands on Scala Native - Tutorial for implementing a bandwidth monitor with Ncurses.
• Starter for Scala Native - Scala Native project that links to a custom C library.
• Building C code using sbt-jni - Example for compiling C code in a Scala Native project using sbt-jni.
• Example project with external dependencies - Example project that uses external dependencies to generate HTML and run a test suite.
• Starter for Gtk+ Projects - Giter8 template for Scala Native GUI projects using Gtk+.
• Modern systems programming with scala native book.
• Write a simple CLI application in Scala Native

Build Tools

• sbt - Scala’s standard build tool.
• Mill - Build tool striving for simplicity, inspired by Bazel.
• Bloop - Scala build server and command-line tool for fast developer workflows.
• Seed - Build tool based on Bloop. Focuses on user experience and cross-platform builds, inspired by Cargo.

Functional Programming

• Shapeless - Library for generic programming.
• Squants - DSL for quantities, units of measure and dimensional analysis.
• scalaz - Type classes and instances for data structures.
• nobox - Immutable primitive array wrapper without boxing.
• PPrint - Pretty-print values and types.
• SourceCode - Implicits providing meta data similar to __LINE__ in C.
• reactify - Functional Reactive Programming framework for Scala.
• chimney - Boilerplate-free data transformations.
• Quicklens - Modify deeply nested case class fields.
• Cats - Abstractions for functional programming in Scala.

Unit Tests

• µTest - Library for unit tests.
• minitest - Lightweight testing library.
• scalaprops - Library for property-based testing.
  • scalaprops-shapeless - Generation of arbitrary ADT instances.
  • scalaprops-cross-example - Cross-platform example.
• ScalaCheck - Property-based testing for Scala.
• ScalaTest - Testing library.
• specs2 - Software Specifications for Scala.
• Makeshift - Library for unit tests.
• MUnit - Scala testing library with actionable errors and extensible APIs.

Bindings

• cmark - Bindings for the cmark CommonMark parser library.
• libuv - Bindings for libuv, a library for asynchronous I/O.
• SDL2 and OpenGL - Bindings for the graphical frameworks SDL2 and OpenGL.
• Cocoa - Bindings for the macOS graphical framework Cocoa.
• GNU Scientific Library - Bindings for GNU Scientific Library (GSL).
• BLAS - Bindings for BLAS, a library for Linear Algebra.
• Gtk+ - Bindings for the GTK+ graphical toolkit.
• libsoup - Bindings for the libsoup HTTP client/server library.
• libui - GUI framework based on libui.
• GStreamer - Bindings for the GStreamer multimedia framework.
• Qt - Bindings for Qt.
• ncurses - Bindings for the GNU Ncurses Library.
• readline - Bindings for the GNU Readline Library.
• libsndfile - Bindings for the Libsndfile C library for sampled sound manipulation.
• libpng - Bindings for the libpng C reference library for reading and writing PNGs.
• libcairo - Bindings for the Cairo 2D graphics C library.
• cairo-xlib - Bindings for the Cairo 2D graphics XLib Surfaces with bindings for XLib as well.
• libyaml - Bindings for the LibYAML C library for parsing YAML.
• iup - Bindings for the IUP multi-platform toolkit for building graphical user interfaces.

File Formats and Parsers

• msgpack4z - Implementation of MessagePack, a binary serialisation format.
• FastParse - Library for defining and running parsers.
• scalatags - HTML/XML construction and rendering.
• Pine - HTML/XML parsing, manipulation and rendering.
• scala-json - JSON parser.
• uPickle - uPickle: a simple, fast, dependency-free JSON & Binary (MessagePack) serialization library for Scala
• toml-scala - TOML parser with codec derivation.
• argonaut - Purely functional JSON parser and library.
• ScalaPB - Protocol Buffer compiler for Scala.
  • scalapb-argonaut - JSON and Protocol Buffer converters for ScalaPB based on Argonaut.
• sconfig - HOCON parser.
• squiggly - Cross-platform template language for Scala, inspired by Liquid and Hugo templates.

Databases

• scala-native-jdbc - Port of the database access layer JDBC to Scala Native.
• SQLite4S - Port of the Java library Sqlite4java. Includes bindings for the SQLite native library.
• libpq4s - Scala wrapper around the async PostgreSQL C library libpq.
• skunk - A data access library for Scala + Postgres.

Web Development

• Trail - Routing library.
• sttp - HTTP Client library.
• snunit - Scala Native HTTP server based on NGINX Unit.

Concurrency

• scala-native-loop - Event loop and async-oriented IO for Scala Native
• castor - Lightweight, typed Actor library for Scala.

Logging

• scribe - Fast and simple logging library.
• slogging - Typesafe-logging and SLF4J-compatible logging library based on macros.

Console

• fansi - Library for creating ANSI-coloured strings.
• scopt - Command-line argument parser.
• scala-optparse-applicative - Port of Haskell’s CLI argument parsing library optparse-applicative.
• scallop - A simple Scala CLI parsing library.
• mainargs - Small, dependency-free library for command line argument parsing in Scala.
• decline - A composable command-line parser for Scala.

Robotics

• Potassium - Framework for writing robot software.
• WPILib - Reimplementation of the FIRST Robotics WPILib libraries.

Programs

• sglgears - Port of GL gears.c.
• k8s-cli - CLI tools to generate Kubernetes resources for Akka, Play Framework and Lagom-based applications.
• Coursier - Coursier’s bootstrap command generates native launchers.
• fractals - A self-similar fractal generator with basic animation support.

Infrastructure

• Seed Docker image - Docker image for cross-platform builds with Seed.
• scala-native-sbt-docker - Docker image for Scala Native and sbt.

Licence

This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.