February Discussion

[alterationx10]

I thought it might be a good idea to start a long-running discussion thread each month, kick-started by some of the highlights we've achieved, issues we're running into and working on, and bringing up some possible subjects of discussion. Feel free to branch off with a new topic of discussion as well!

Some progress

• Set up some repositories to start building some useful libraries and
  frameworks
• Set up the groupId of "works.scala" with Sonatype to publish artifacts
  there/Maven Central
• Built the base of a small cli app that can help with our resources.

Things to work on

Thinking about making applications (particularly those packaged with scala-cli) easily installable is an important topic, I think. A homebrew repository/tap has been set up at https://github.com/scala-works/homebrew-scala-works, which seems like a good first avenue for getting apps to users, but I think it could use some more planning about how to handle the base dependencies (i.e. Java), but not forcing people to install those via homebrew.

Next thoughts?

One thing I think that can help people coming to Scala from another language, is provide a mental mapping of the tooling/project set-up from $LANGUAGE => Scala. I set up a page called "Scala Rosetta Stone" at https://scala.works/rosetta/ and started to template out a (very) rough idea of what that might look like, and a (again, very rough) example for NodeJS.

Does this seem useful? What are the things something like this should cover?

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I got an action set up to package an app (scala-cli in this case) when a GitHub release is published, and add it to the release files:

Action:
https://github.com/scala-works/scala-works-cli/blob/main/.github/workflows/release.yaml

Example release:
https://github.com/scala-works/scala-works-cli/releases/tag/v0.0.1

Since these bootstrapped packages should be universal on Linux/MacOS, we can then point a homebrew formula at it without having to build it locally! Example:
https://github.com/scala-works/homebrew-scala-works/blob/main/Formula/scala-works.rb

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I did a bit of house cleaning in the discussions, and transferred some to relevant repositories that have been set up.

[alterationx10]

I was planning of doing some live coding/streaming, and decided discord seems like a great choice for this. I've set up a discord server here: https://discord.gg/em8nn8PU3k

Some topic planning here: https://github.com/orgs/scala-works/projects/1