effects-examples VS context-s

Compare effects-examples vs context-s and see what are their differences.

effects-examples

Examples to illustrate the use of algebraic effects in Multicore OCaml (by ocaml-multicore)

context-s

A COP language extension for Squeak/Smalltalk (by hpi-swa)
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effects-examples

Posts with mentions or reviews of effects-examples. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-14.
  • Maybe Everything Is a Coroutine
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2024
    Isn't a language described very similar to the (future) OCaml with effects (https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/effects-examples) added?
  • Examples to illustrate the use of algebraic effects in Multicore OCaml
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Mar 2023
  • Context: The Missing Feature of Programming Languages
    5 projects | /r/programming | 7 Mar 2023
    Sure. They probably don't mention coeffects so often because their effect system subsumes both effects (actions to be performed) and coeffects (information from the context), and it can do way more than what you're proposing. Here are some examples you may take a look. The dynamic state example in there could be adapted to act as coeffects (contexts) as you suggest. For coeffects in particular, this is a great resource. You may also be interested in Koka's documentation, as it was designed to be a language with effects and coeffects since the beginning (OCaml did only retrofit them recently).
  • Reverse-mode algorithmic differentiation using effect handlers in OCaml 5
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 18 Nov 2022
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Nov 2022
  • OCaml Multicore merged upstream
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jan 2022
    Good question!

    https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/effects-examples has links to tutorials and examples for how effects can be used.

    There's also some slides from KC's talk on effect handlers https://kcsrk.info/slides/handlers_edinburgh.pdf and materials from the CUFP 17 tutorial: https://github.com/ocamllabs/ocaml-effects-tutorial

    https://gopiandcode.uk/logs/log-bye-bye-monads-algebraic-eff... this is also a great introduction

  • Multicore OCaml PR has been merged
    3 projects | /r/programming | 10 Jan 2022
    Here's a post outlining the part that people are excited about. Here's the examples list if you'd like more concrete examples.
  • Functional Programming Languages Sentiment Ranking
    1 project | /r/functionalprogramming | 9 Dec 2021
    To be honest, though, despite it being cool that OCaml finally has a concrete multicore release date, I'm more interested in the effect handlers. After reading these slides and this article on the topic I realised OCaml getting support for algebraic effects is way more interesting than the parallelism support.
  • Scripting Languages of the Future
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Oct 2021
    I think it's not discussed enough how things like language features shape how library APIs are formed. People usually seem to only consider the question "how would I use this feature?" and not "how would the standard library look like with this feature?", which is surprising given how much builtin libraries affect the pleasantness of a language.

    One of the things I'm excited to see is the cap-std project for Rust [0] given what Pony [1] has demonstrated is possible with capabilities. I'm also hoping that languages like Koka [2] and OCaml [3] will demonstrate interesting use cases for algebraic effects.

    [0] https://github.com/bytecodealliance/cap-std

    [1] https://www.ponylang.io/discover

    [2] https://koka-lang.github.io

    [3] https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/effects-examples

  • PHP 'noreturn' type RFC accepted, with type name to be 'never'.
    1 project | /r/programming | 16 Apr 2021
    Just randomly stumbled upon this example, which is exactly what you were asking about. It is a strongly-typed fork() that uses first-class effects.

context-s

Posts with mentions or reviews of context-s. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-07.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing effects-examples and context-s you can also consider the following projects:

eioio - Effects-based direct-style IO for multicore OCaml

contextpy-examples - Example applications using ContextPy. See: https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/trac/Cop/wiki/ContextPy

lwt_eio - Use Lwt libraries from within Eio

contextr - A context-oriented programming API for Ruby

cap-std - Capability-oriented version of the Rust standard library

ocaml-effects-tutorial - Concurrent Programming with Effect Handlers

raytracers - Performance comparison of parallel ray tracing in functional programming languages

sandmark - A benchmark suite for the OCaml compiler

ocaml - The core OCaml system: compilers, runtime system, base libraries

COBPjs - Context idioms for BPjs