I agree with the sentiment that the more FP-heavy parts of the Scala ecosystem are not suited to hello-world code _at all_. In this particular case, http4s is a

I agree with the sentiment that the more FP-heavy parts of the Scala ecosystem are not suited to hello-world code _at all_. In this particular case, http4s is at its core a low-level library. The author was right to go for Play first. But it turns out there's an alrernative. Tapir is emerging as that "pure FP, but approachable" HTTP framework. It allows developers to work at a higher level, turning the HTTP backend into an implementation detail. Simply define the application using Tapir, then choose the better backend for the use case.