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Exhaustive pattern matching using lenses, traversals, and prisms (by Gabriella439)

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The Monad Transformer Library (by haskell)

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total		mtl
	Project
-	Mentions	10
31	Stars	357
-	Growth	1.1%
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	16 days ago
Haskell	Language	Haskell
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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Deprecating Safe Haskell, or heavily investing in it?
1 project | /r/haskell | 28 Dec 2022

The most recent real case I remember is https://github.com/haskell/mtl/issues/110, which could ended badly.
Type class subsets
1 project | /r/haskell | 16 Dec 2022

Splitting mtl classes into algebraic and non-algebraic components (url) Factor MonadReader into Ask (algebraic) and Local (non-algebraic) classes Factor MonadWriter into Tell (algebraic) and Listen/Pass (non-algebraic)
[ANN] mtl-2.3.1
2 projects | /r/haskell | 31 Oct 2022
[ANN] mtl-2.3.1-rc1
2 projects | /r/haskell | 29 Aug 2022

It was the example from the ticket which works fine because there is no restriction that the argument to ContT r is a Monad
Confusion about StateT
1 project | /r/haskell | 8 Aug 2022
Draft mtl-2.3 migration guide
3 projects | /r/haskell | 5 Jul 2022

I don't think so, but here is a list of upcoming changes in mtl-3.0.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing total and mtl you can also consider the following projects:

conduit-combinators - Type classes for mapping, folding, and traversing monomorphic containers

parallel - a library for parallel programming

auto - Haskell DSL and platform providing denotational, compositional api for discrete-step, locally stateful, interactive programs, games & automations. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/auto

motor - Type-safe effectful state machines in Haskell

distributed-closure - Serializable closures for distributed programming.

capability - Extensional capabilities and deriving combinators

distributed-process-platform - DEPRECATED (Cloud Haskell Platform) in favor of distributed-process-extras, distributed-process-async, distributed-process-client-server, distributed-process-registry, distributed-process-supervisor, distributed-process-task and distributed-process-execution

eveff - Efficient Haskell effect handlers based on evidence translation.

effect-monad - Provides 'graded monads' and 'parameterised monads' to Haskell, enabling fine-grained reasoning about effects.

mtl-unleashed - MonadReader and MonadState without the functional dependencies

extensible-effects - Extensible Effects: An Alternative to Monad Transformers

control-monad-free - Free monads and monad transformers