Scala with ZIO: Introduction to Fibers

[@sherwin96]

Sounds like a new zio course is on the way 😃

[@rockthejvm]

relatively soon! 😅

[@theyreMineralsMarie]

This is such a nice abstraction for concurrency. I use Project Reactor as part of Spring WebFlux at work and wish it had some of the lower level control that ZIO appears to give you. I like that it blends the concepts of threads found in C with the expressiveness of functional programming.

[@mankoxyz]

Great stuff, you should do more videos on ZIO.

[@rockthejvm]

Will do!

[@DiegoFerreiradaSilva]

thank you and more videos about zio please!

[@rafaeldelgado7860]

Great video! Thank you! It would be great if you could make more with ZIO. ZIO rocks!

[@rockthejvm]

More to come!

[@rk-fx9wc]

Absoultely awesome video, thank you so much! Do you consider to record a video about the Error handling in ZIO? It'd be so great!

[@rockthejvm]

Good idea - might do a video there

[@GVLPedro]

Hi Daniel, we want more about ZIO !! I think ZIO 2 is available and it is faster than version 1, maybe it is a good point to continue... thanks a lot!!

[@rockthejvm]

Will do! ZIO 2.0 is close to RC, will have more content out as soon as it becomes stable.

[@HoD999x]

but interrupt doesn't stop an already running process, it just prevents the jump to the next step, right?

[@rockthejvm]

Yes - there is a way of stopping the thread itself via thread interrupts, but that mechanism is nasty.

[@Sando816]

Thank you very much to share!

[@thajafsal]

Zio is just so useful and easy.

[@shishe1984]

I love how you explained all of this. I still have one question though: is there a criteria on how the fibers get dispatched to the execution context? With other frameworks such as Play, you could have different execution contexts, and then you could explicitly move the spawned threads/futures to the corresponding context as to avoid blocking certain parts of the application with them. Do fibers follow a similiar philosophy?

[@rockthejvm]

It's certainly possible.

[@alexandrutudor6195]

By this video, I can understant that scala Futures will be deprecated in exchange for ZIO? I'm a bit confused and hope I'm not wrong, but you can use Futures very easily for concurrent programming :d Why I would use ZIO, a new library instead of the benefits of the language? Or, this is really a FP concept (how somebody said below). thx

[@rockthejvm]

Scala Futures aren't going anywhere. ZIO was invented to 1) avoid callback-based concurrent applications ("callback hell"), 2) simplify Scala code, 3) avoid unnecessary abstractions (e.g. overdoing tagless final)

[@lac4793]

Thanks, Daniel, this video is absolutely incredible. I'm wondering if, There are other reasons besides the reasonable low cost of canceling a running fiber (thread) to use fiber instead of normal thread?

[@rockthejvm]

Glad to hear you liked it! The fact that fibers are cheap and small is the main reason why we should use them.

[@miguelguzman8217]

Hey love your videos! They've helped me several times however I find them a little to abstract sometimes. For example it is not clear to me how can I consume the result of the fibers, I might want to send information to two databases (one on postgres and another on oracle) at the same time, but how can I know when both fibers have completed and how can I report to console or logs if the operations succeeded? Or maybe fibers can only do side-effects and are not effective to return any information and perform an action on the information? Keep up the good work!

[@rockthejvm]

There are many combinators that work with the results of fibers - probably a topic for a future video

[@miguelguzman8217]

Cool! Thanks for taking the time to make great content like this! Looking forward for your next videos.

[@imranfp]

You really rocks :) but being a viewer I would expect, if you could also explain the concept with visual examples, as you have mentioned in your few videos about Actors. Overall, waiting for your "Functional Programming Concept", "ZIO", "Cats Effect 3" and "Functional Micro services" courses.

[@rockthejvm]

visual explanations & diagrams take a lot of work - you can expect them in the courses :D

[@iFunktion]

I'm guessing this is an old tutorial, intellij is asking to implement environmentalTag and bootstrap? And won't run properly without them, what does this mean?

[@iFunktion]

Solved it, with "object ZioFibers extends zio.ZIOAppDefault" That covers the overrides it seems :)

[@BloodnutXcom]

The U in UIO means Uninterruptible because it can't fail (E is Nothing)

[@rockthejvm]

I forgot where names came from - thanks!

[@angelooparah4223]

It actually stands for Unexceptional (for that reason: it cannot fail)

[@BloodnutXcom]

@@angelooparah4223 is it? Huh, my bad

[@kyotin1]

Awesome video!

[@mayonesacosmica]

somebody has some quantum influence

[@mayonesacosmica]

at least Bob and Alice think so