Package object disinheritance for scala-xml #4380
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Inheriting from package objects is on the way out in Scala 3, after being briefly deprecated in Scala 2.13. It also causes problems with sbt's incremental compiler.
It's extensible as a codec project grows, and Cats users should feel at home. It also feels quite overengineered.
The net effect is former importers of
would now need to do:
or
or
The choice is bad and the verbosity is bad and the boilerplate in the code is bad but the futureproofing is good and the consistency with upstream is good.
Discuss.