@lolgab @benjhm I am really interested in Typelevel but do not have any experience with it. It is something I want to learn more about.

I got interested in Scala in 2009 mainly because I very much liked Odersky’s approach to mixing functional and object-oriented paradigms and also Scala’s early integration of Actors. I had done functional programming since graduate school in the 1990s, pre-Haskell, but I am definitely not a purist.

@lolgab @benjhm Thanks much! I really like Li Haoyi’s libraries. The code is clean and pragmatic. In this case I was not sure if Cask supports Scala 3 and the framework does not seem to be oriented towards async programming. I plan to put most of the logic and UI in the client (Scala JS) and use the back-end for data communications and synchronization. So mainly for services.

I also wanted to also look at Vert.x .. it’s not especially a Scala project, but it seems usable from Scala.

@benjhm

I am hoping to build in some social features for small groups. Multiple people interacting with shared systems and spatial models. The model would run in the client but a server would receive and re-broadcast events representing user actions. Models + views in each person’s browser but synchronized.

A single language for server and client would make it easy for the server to maintain a live copy of the state. New users could “tune in” by downloading that copy and pulling missed events

@lolgab @benjhm I am a bit nervous about Play because of it is based on the now proprietary Akka (I am hoping to release under Apache 2, and yes, I did see that the Play folks are working in this.) I will take a look at the other options.

Laminar looks great!