GitHub user mdedetrich edited a discussion: Replace typesafe config for sconfig for Pekko 2.0.0
This was brought up some time ago (if someone can find the discussion then please link it) but I want to raise this again, basically moving from lightbend config to [sconfig](https://github.com/ekrich/sconfig). Currently Pekko uses typesafe config as its main configuration library however there are many issues with it - Lightbend config [no longer really being maintained](https://github.com/lightbend/config/issues/789) and aside from akka we seem to be the only main library using it (most of the Scala community has moved to sconfig) - Using a library that is largely unmaintained puts at risk of issues, given pekko itself has limited capacity its best to make sure our dependencies are well maintained. We have already begun removing libraries such as [sslconfig](https://github.com/lightbend/ssl-config) for this same reason - sconfig aside from being [actively maintained](https://github.com/ekrich/sconfig?tab=readme-ov-file#versions), its used by many large non trivial projects including - scalafmt - scalafix - sconfig supports all major versions of Scala (2.12/2.13/3.3) along with scala.js and scala-native. Pekko doesn't have these targets, but using sconfig helps open up this possibility - sconfig has no real impact on java users, in fact aside from the raw package name/imports the API is exactly the same (this was done intentionally), see https://github.com/ekrich/sconfig/tree/main/sconfig/shared/src/main/scala/org/ekrich/config - The migration is so trivial that they actually provide their own [migration tool](https://github.com/ekrich/sconfig?tab=readme-ov-file#migrating-an-existing-lightbendconfig-project-to-sconfig) @raboof @pjfanning @raboof Thoughts? GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/pekko/discussions/2186 ---- This is an automatically sent email for notifications@pekko.apache.org. To unsubscribe, please send an email to: notifications-unsubscr...@pekko.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: notifications-unsubscr...@pekko.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: notifications-h...@pekko.apache.org
