Languages like python provide really fast and simple ways to perform most operations, which lends itself very well to scripting.
I think that Scala fails at this, while it's better than Java it's still not great. I don't think this is a problem for most situations.
I do however think it would be very nice if toolkit could provide default implementations of some common tasks in a referential transparent and resource-safe way. An example would be reading and writing files.
I'm pretty new to using CE so I ended up writing this, which I'm not even sure is the correct way to do this.
def fileWriter(path: String): Resource[IO, FileWriter] =
Resource.make(IO.blocking(new FileWriter(new File(name))))(file => IO.blocking(file.close()))
def openFile(path: String) : Resource[IO, Source] =
Resource.make(IO.blocking(Source.fromFile(path)))(file => IO.blocking(file.close()))
def writeToFile(path: String, content: String) =
fileWriter(path).use(writer => IO.blocking(writer.write(content)))if instead similar operations were already implemented for me I think that would be really great. It would at least make it a lot easier to convince other people to use this :)
All of this might obviously be outside of the scope of toolkit as it's a collection of libraries, but it would certainly make it easier to pick up for people who just want something to write small tools with.
Languages like python provide really fast and simple ways to perform most operations, which lends itself very well to scripting.
I think that Scala fails at this, while it's better than Java it's still not great. I don't think this is a problem for most situations.
I do however think it would be very nice if toolkit could provide default implementations of some common tasks in a referential transparent and resource-safe way. An example would be reading and writing files.
I'm pretty new to using CE so I ended up writing this, which I'm not even sure is the correct way to do this.
if instead similar operations were already implemented for me I think that would be really great. It would at least make it a lot easier to convince other people to use this :)
All of this might obviously be outside of the scope of toolkit as it's a collection of libraries, but it would certainly make it easier to pick up for people who just want something to write small tools with.