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Scala not having a single well defined networking library and having to revert to using Java is exactly why I prefer Go for networking. Gotta call a http endpo
by sly010 10y ago
Scala not having a single well defined networking library and having to revert to using Java is exactly why I prefer Go for networking.
Gotta call a http endpoint in Go?
https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/
Gotta call a http endpoint in Scala?
https://www.google.com/search?q=best+http+client+library+in+scala
Perhaps I just don't have enough experience with Scala and I don't know the best practices (maybe everyone just uses akka and apache commons for everything?) yet.
- pjmlp 10y agoMany of us love the polyglot nature of JVM and .NET, and don't mind using the best library, even if written in system language of the platform.
- saryant 10y agoThe java.net package already exists. And there's Netty, which is more battle-tested than likely any networking library save BSD's.