Are there any good Scala-specific frameworks and libraries worth taking a look out there?

Question

Are there any good Scala-specific frameworks (for whatever purpose) and libraries worth taking a look out there other than Lift web framework?

Answer 1

Akka, to be certain.

Answer 2

Let's see:

• Akka -- Distributed Computing
• Scalaz -- Functional Programming (above and beyond what Scala provides)
• ScalaCheck -- Testing framework with auto-sampling
• ScalaTest / Specs -- Traditional testing frameworks

These are my favorites. Of course, there are many libraries out there, but it would be pointless to list here all interesting Scala libraries that exist.

Answer 3

Probably not as popular as some of the others, but I think these really show off what Scala can do:

Squeryl - Basically a typesafe SQL DSL

Scalatra - Ruby Sinatra clone

Play Framework Scala Module - Scala programming for Play

Answer 4

• scala xray shows how to use a compiler plugin for good effect.
• sbt for sure. It's a marvel.

Answer 5

Circumflex ORM - raw but very interesting framework for object-relational mapping.

Answer 6

scalate for templating and scalala for linear algebra are well worth looking at.

Answer 7

The Twitter folks have produced some nice libraries. We're leveraging:

Querulous (http://github.com/nkallen/querulous): for easy database access via JDBC

and

Configgy (http://www.lag.net/configgy): for accessing file-based configuration data