In software: "if it exists, there will be prod of it"
I think some of the criticism of requests-scala has been a little unfair... it's not appropriate for production apps, but I can believe it has a place in hacky scripts and REPLs, in the same way we pipe curl into another program without contemplating error cases.https://twitter.com/li_haoyi/status/1075365659117142018 …
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Dumb/honest question: what exactly makes it not appropriate to prod?
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@li_haoyi's original tweet mention some reasons, but in summary, the API doesn't make it so easy to write reliable, bug-free code. (But instead, it makes it very easy to download a URL into a string.)
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I'll stick with sttp ;) It's (almost?) as easy to use in a REPL/hacky script: https://github.com/softwaremill/sttp#quickstart-with-ammonite …, but it can also be used in production using the same API. Hacky script vs production-use doesn't have to be an alternative.
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Spoiler: people are going to use it for production apps.
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You are certainly not wrong...
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I honestly don't understand why production and hacky-script has to have different libraries or interfaces. Python programmers have been using Python's requests everywhere and you don't hear them complain about it.
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Being production-ready implies a certain degree of resilience against a variety of errors, security attacks and maintenance. Stringly-typed APIs mean you're not forced to handle certain errors, you're at risk of injection attacks, and your app is likely to break when APIs change.
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It seemed to me that the criticism was of the comparison between http4s and request-scala rather than a criticism of request-scala itself. IMHO, the criticism was just.
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Wasn't the same goal shared with http://unirest.io/java.html ?
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