effectful VS avail

Compare effectful vs avail and see what are their differences.

effectful

An easy to use, fast extensible effects library with seamless integration with the existing Haskell ecosystem. (by haskell-effectful)

avail

Low-overhead effect management for concrete monads (by re-xyr)
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effectful avail
21 2
319 36
6.0% -
8.0 0.0
9 days ago about 2 years ago
Haskell Haskell
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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effectful

Posts with mentions or reviews of effectful. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-03.

avail

Posts with mentions or reviews of avail. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-14.
  • Effect is a phantom (or, the redundant constraint pattern)
    3 projects | /r/haskell | 14 Sep 2021
    I see, this is indeed a valid point and can be used to rewrite the example in the blog post. After all, the blog post is just a simple proof of concept, and in the availability library I am working on, you can also have similar flexibility, i.e. either the concrete type with a phantom Eff constraint,
    3 projects | /r/haskell | 14 Sep 2021
    Yes, this is what I did in the WIP availability library, except that I used the reflection trick instead of ImplicitParams. Conceptually they are the same.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing effectful and avail you can also consider the following projects:

godot-haskell - Haskell bindings for GdNative

cleff - Fast and concise extensible effects

unliftio - The MonadUnliftIO typeclass for unlifting monads to IO

ghc-proposals - Proposed compiler and language changes for GHC and GHC/Haskell

hpqtypes-effectful - Effectful bindings for hpqtypes

PolysemyCleanArchitecture - Showcasing how the Polysemy library can be used to implement a REST application conforming to the guidelines of the Clean Architecture model.

pg_timetable - pg_timetable: Advanced scheduling for PostgreSQL

Functional PHP - Primitives for functional programming in PHP

hackage-server - Hackage-Server: A Haskell Package Repository

snap-core - Core type definitions (Snap monad, HTTP types, etc) and utilities for web handlers.

effect-zoo - Effect Zoo for Scala

monad-alter - A typeclass for abstracting the backend