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Shapeless
A type class and dependent type based generic programming library for Scala. Used widely in production systems wherever there are arities to be abstracted over and boilerplate to be scrapped.
| First released | 2011 |
| Latest stable version | 2 |
| Open-source | Not defined |
Interesting facts
One common use case for Shapeless is building codecs: JSON or binary serialization are good examples.The central part of Shapeless is HList (heterogeneous list). HList is a data type that retains type information about each of its element.