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This is why I'm curious about algebraic effects which was recently discussed on /r/rust [0]

The main challenges I see are around usability within the language design on how best to propagate and compose them.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/cjcwmu/is_there_inter...

I found out about algebraic effects a year or two ago when I ran across the efforts to bring them to OCaml. Async/await was a preliminary thing so I though algebraic effects would be a more complete solution and more in line with the Rust ethos. After asking around in some NYC meetups and on Reddit , my impression is that there isn't a lot of appetite to break additional new ground in terms of bringing fringe language features (I'm unaware of a non-academic language that features them in a production release, OCaml is closest AFAIK) into a language that already has a fairly high barrier to entry.

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