This would have been very helpful to me about two to three months ago. I was doing an interview assessment during that period and I was required to do it in Scala, although I had no experience in it. My experience with HTTP requests comes mostly from Ruby, Python, and JavaScript, and when I was looking for analogous solutions in Scala I found the ecosystem lacking. It took me way too long to do something I knew how to do already in multiple languages.

I know people sometimes like to say the JavaScript ecosystem is a mess, but it being popular and having multiple ways to do things was something I learned to appreciate during that assessment.