ether vs effet

ether

Monad Transformers and Classes (by int-index)

Control

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effet

An effect system based on type classes, written in Haskell. (by typedbyte)

Control Haskell Effects Handlers

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ether		effet
	Project
1	Mentions	2
78	Stars	44
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
almost 5 years ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
Haskell	Language	Haskell
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

ether

Posts with mentions or reviews of ether. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-02.

Haskell doesn't make sense without pure functions
4 projects | /r/haskell | 2 Oct 2021

effet

Posts with mentions or reviews of effet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-05.

Monthly Hask Anything (May 2021)
3 projects | /r/haskell | 5 May 2021

You may also be interested in effet, which is an mtl-like effect system which tries to overcome the limitations of mtl.
Monad Transformers and Effects with Backpack
3 projects | /r/haskell | 24 Dec 2020

Interesting, thank you for writing this up. I tried something very very similar before writing effet, but while working with Backpack, I was constantly questioning the ergonomics of it all (in the context of writing effects), and ultimately decided that it is not worth it and abandonded the idea.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ether and effet you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

indextype - Haskell Library of type functions for dealing with "indexed types", i.e tuples, functions.

hierarchical-free-monads-the-most-developed-approach-in-haskell - Big article about Hierarchical Free Monads, the most developed approach to build real software in Haskell

hasql-th - Template Haskell utilities for Hasql

parallel - a library for parallel programming

tehepero - Prettier errors and reimplementation of unwrap and expect from Rust

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

distributed-closure - Serializable closures for distributed programming.

effects-parser - Parser Effect for the Control.Effects Library

safe-exceptions - Safe, consistent, and easy exception handling

effects - Control.Effects