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Awesome Scala Native

Compilation of Scala Native resources and libraries

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General

Scala Native

is an optimising ahead-of-time compiler for the Scala programming language. Traditionally, a virtual machine, the JVM, was required to run Scala programs. Scala Native taps into the compiler to emit LLVM intermediate representation rather than JVM bytecode. Then, the LLVM compiler infrastructure…

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.

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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.

Leucine

Small cross-platform actor framework

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.

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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.

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