polysemy VS ghc

Compare polysemy vs ghc and see what are their differences.

polysemy

:gemini: higher-order, no-boilerplate monads (by polysemy-research)

ghc

Mirror of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Please submit issues and patches to GHC's Gitlab instance (https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc). First time contributors are encouraged to get started with the newcomers info (https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/contributing). (by ghc)
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polysemy ghc
7 89
1,004 2,907
0.1% 1.1%
0.0 9.6
10 days ago 3 months ago
Haskell Haskell
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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polysemy

Posts with mentions or reviews of polysemy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-02.
  • Functional Declarative Design: A Comprehensive Methodology for Statically-Typed Functional Programming Languages
    4 projects | /r/haskell | 2 Jun 2023
    Thirdly, composing arbitrary effects without losing state is really, really difficult. Things are fine when you limit yourself to State and Reader, sure, but once you start with nondeterminism you’ll discover it’s shockingly easy to produce behaviors that are baffling unless you’ve spent a preposterous amount of time thinking about this stuff. (I’ve been bitten in prod by silent state-dropping bugs, and rarely have I been more flummoxed.) Consider this example, which produces silent changes in the semantics of <|> depending on whether you use it inside or outside of a higher-order effect. Every single effect library (besides the still-unreleased eff) gets certain combinations of effects + nondeterminism wrong. You could make the argument that most people don’t use nondeterministic monads, but eDSLs really shine when you have access to them, as you can turn a concrete interpreter to an abstract one fairly easily.
  • Introduction to Doctests in Haskell
    6 projects | /r/haskell | 19 Apr 2022
    Looking for a few projects that make use of it, I found accelerate, hawk, polysemy and pretty-simple, so I'll be interested to poke around in their code and see how they have things set up.
  • ReaderT pattern is just extensible effects
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 3 Feb 2022
    Right, I think I'll just give it a shot to see. Polysemy is nice but I'm still having trouble getting what I want out of it (which may very well be entirely a fault of my own understanding)
  • Where's more discussion of the designs of effect systems?
    4 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 17 Nov 2021
    Languages such as Koka only support algebraic effects, not scoping operations such as catch and listen. The Effect Handlers in Scope paper introduces scoping operations, which lead to the Haskell libraries fused-effects and polysemy, but they turned out to have some weird semantics. eff is her effort to fix that.
  • Monthly Hask Anything (June 2021)
    16 projects | /r/haskell | 2 Jun 2021
  • Structuring Code with ZIO &amp; ZLayers
    3 projects | /r/scala | 3 Mar 2021
    *But I'm not terribly well versed in Scala's other DI offerings. I came from Haskell and didn't find anything in Scala that clicked with me until I found ZIO. It reminded me a lot of my favorite way of writing Haskell programs (https://github.com/polysemy-research/polysemy)—albeit with a completely different implementation.

ghc

Posts with mentions or reviews of ghc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-24.
  • Introducing NeoHaskell: A beacon of joy in a greyed tech world
    2 projects | dev.to | 24 Sep 2023
    Depending on who you ask, a programming language can be different things. If you ask the Haskell community, many will tell you that the language is the Haskell specification, and that what currently is being used is not Haskell itself, but an extension of Haskell that is supported by the GHC compiler. Similar to the C language, a programming language would be a specification.
  • Exploring the Internals of Linux v0.01
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Aug 2023
  • Why did GHC go from "occurs check failed" to talking about rigid type variables?
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 27 Apr 2023
  • How to get Bounded or Enum functionality for arbitrary Ints?
    2 projects | /r/haskellquestions | 19 Mar 2023
    bss@monster % cat > File.hs pred 1 = 4 succ 4 = 1 succ 1 = 2 bss@monster % ghci -XNoImplicitPrelude File.hs GHCi, version 9.0.2: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loaded GHCi configuration from /home/bss/.ghc/ghci.conf [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( File.hs, interpreted ) Ok, one module loaded. (0.04 secs,) GHCi> pred 1 4 it :: GHC.Num.Num p => p (0.01 secs, 79,688 bytes) GHCi> succ 1 2 it :: GHC.Num.Num p => p (0.01 secs, 78,088 bytes)
    2 projects | /r/haskellquestions | 19 Mar 2023
    GHCi, version 9.0.2: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loaded GHCi configuration from /home/bss/.ghc/ghci.conf GHCi> :{ GHCi| pred 1 = 4 GHCi| succ 4 = 1 GHCi| succ 1 = 2 GHCi| :} pred :: (Eq a, Num a, Num p) => a -> p succ :: (Eq a, Num a, Num p) => a -> p (0.04 secs, 0 bytes) GHCi> pred 1 4 it :: Num p => p (0.01 secs, 62,784 bytes) GHCi> succ 4 1 it :: Num p => p (0.01 secs, 61,864 bytes) GHCi> succ 1 2 it :: Num p => p (0.01 secs, 61,928 bytes)
  • Monad Transformer Compatibility
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 17 Feb 2023
    [jumper deriving-trans @master]$ nix develop [jumper deriving-trans @master]$ cabal repl Build profile: -w ghc-9.2.4 -O1 In order, the following will be built (use -v for more details): - deriving-trans-0.8.0.0 (lib) (first run) Preprocessing library for deriving-trans-0.8.0.0.. GHCi, version 9.2.4: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help :1:1: warning: [-Wmissing-local-signatures] Polymorphic local binding with no type signature: _compileParsedExpr :: forall {a}. ghc-prim:GHC.Types.IO a -> ghc-prim:GHC.Types.IO a macro 'doc' overwrites builtin command. Use ':def!' to overwrite. Loaded GHCi configuration from /home/jumper/.ghc/ghci.conf : warning: [-Wunused-packages] The following packages were specified via -package or -package-id flags, but were not needed for compilation: - unliftio-core-0.2.0.1-4aEaNp8xHRK6Ey6KEoq0BU - transformers-base-0.4.6-BO3yqj8kK7N1FV1bV9s5yP - transformers-0.6.0.4-F8uVRiS1g8K3h8Rsxr0UMd - resourcet-1.2.6-GkviYKmTWlu24k3qS4ih9J - random-1.2.1.1-DsRhotp5Bx34wv1CRGomTB - primitive-0.7.3.0-1lmZ3PZm6JAE7HP2AgnD1I - mtl-2.3.1-A9dQ96c1wA8f1tgidK0Kj - monad-control-identity-0.2.0.0-C96eAiqAq5HPusYxrNzzr - monad-control-1.0.3.1-9k4XD0NyvERHbSFKJZxIuC - logict-0.8.0.0-5sZNS401Hrq2OkYkpVhzEI - exceptions-0.10.7-LidfE6miSbs6Y1NYj1lBV5 - base-4.16.3.0 [1 of 7] Compiling Control.Monad.Accum.OrphanInstances ( src/Control/Monad/Accum/OrphanInstances.hs, interpreted ) [2 of 7] Compiling Control.Monad.Select.OrphanInstances ( src/Control/Monad/Select/OrphanInstances.hs, interpreted ) [3 of 7] Compiling Control.Monad.Trans.Elevator ( src/Control/Monad/Trans/Elevator.hs, interpreted ) [4 of 7] Compiling Control.Monad.Trans.Compose.Transparent ( src/Control/Monad/Trans/Compose/Transparent.hs, interpreted ) [5 of 7] Compiling Control.Monad.Trans.Compose ( src/Control/Monad/Trans/Compose.hs, interpreted ) [6 of 7] Compiling Control.Monad.Trans.Compose.Stack ( src/Control/Monad/Trans/Compose/Stack.hs, interpreted ) [7 of 7] Compiling Control.Monad.Trans.Compose.Infix ( src/Control/Monad/Trans/Compose/Infix.hs, interpreted ) Ok, 7 modules loaded. λ *Control.Monad.Trans.Compose > :set -XPartialTypeSignatures λ *Control.Monad.Trans.Compose > import Control.Monad.Trans.Compose.Infix λ *Control.Monad.Trans.Compose Control.Monad.Trans.Compose.Infix > import Control.Monad.Trans.Compose.Transparent λ *Control.Monad.Trans.Compose Control.Monad.Trans.Compose.Infix Control.Monad.Trans.Compose.Transparent > runTransparentT ./> (`Mtl.T.runReaderT` 'a') ./> (`Mtl.T.runReaderT` True) $ (,) <$> (Mtl.ask :: _ Char) <*> (Mtl.ask :: _ Bool) :4:98: warning: [-Wpartial-type-signatures] • Found type wildcard ‘_’ standing for ‘ComposeT (Mtl.T.ReaderT Bool) (ComposeT (Mtl.T.ReaderT Char) (Elevator NoT)) IO :: * -> *’ • In the type ‘_ Char’ In an expression type signature: _ Char In the second argument of ‘(<$>)’, namely ‘(Mtl.ask :: _ Char)’ :4:98: warning: [-Wmonomorphism-restriction] • The Monomorphism Restriction applies to the binding for ‘’ Consider giving it a type signature • In the second argument of ‘(<$>)’, namely ‘(Mtl.ask :: _ Char)’ In the first argument of ‘(<*>)’, namely ‘(,) <$> (Mtl.ask :: _ Char)’ In the second argument of ‘($)’, namely ‘(,) <$> (Mtl.ask :: _ Char) <*> (Mtl.ask :: _ Bool)’ :4:122: warning: [-Wpartial-type-signatures] • Found type wildcard ‘_’ standing for ‘ComposeT (Mtl.T.ReaderT Bool) (ComposeT (Mtl.T.ReaderT Char) (Elevator NoT)) IO :: * -> *’ • In the type ‘_ Bool’ In an expression type signature: _ Bool In the second argument of ‘(<*>)’, namely ‘(Mtl.ask :: _ Bool)’ :4:122: warning: [-Wmonomorphism-restriction] • The Monomorphism Restriction applies to the binding for ‘’ Consider giving it a type signature • In the second argument of ‘(<*>)’, namely ‘(Mtl.ask :: _ Bool)’ In the second argument of ‘($)’, namely ‘(,) <$> (Mtl.ask :: _ Char) <*> (Mtl.ask :: _ Bool)’ In the first argument of ‘GHC.GHCi.ghciStepIO :: IO a -> IO a’, namely ‘(runTransparentT ./> (`Mtl.T.runReaderT` 'a') ./> (`Mtl.T.runReaderT` True) $ (,) <$> (Mtl.ask :: _ Char) <*> (Mtl.ask :: _ Bool))’ ('a',True)
  • Why does 0.1 and 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Feb 2023
    GHCi, version 8.10.7: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help
  • I ❤️ PEG
    3 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 4 Feb 2023
    Haskell (in the form of GHC) uses Alex, which is regular expression-based.
  • GHC JS and WA backends documentation ?
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 14 Jan 2023
    A good starting point for the JS backend is the module-level documentation in GHC.StgToJS, but it doesn't look like there's much good documentation yet, no.
  • How can type inference represent calculation?
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 8 Oct 2022
    GHCi, version 9.4.2: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help ghci> :load Evolution.hs [1 of 2] Compiling Main ( Evolution.hs, interpreted ) Ok, one module loaded. ghci> :t fac four fac four :: Succ (Succ (Succ (Succ (Succ (Succ (Succ (Succ (Succ (Succ (Succ (Succ (Succ (Succ (Succ (Succ (Succ (Succ (Succ (Succ (Succ (Succ (Succ (Succ Zero)))))))))))))))))))))))

What are some alternatives?

When comparing polysemy and ghc you can also consider the following projects:

fused-effects - A fast, flexible, fused effect system for Haskell

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Exercism - Scala Exercises - Crowd-sourced code mentorship. Practice having thoughtful conversations about code.

freer-simple - A friendly effect system for Haskell

ast-monad - A library for constructing AST by using do-notation

haskell.nix - Alternative Haskell Infrastructure for Nixpkgs

in-other-words - A higher-order effect system where the sky's the limit

eff - 🚧 a work in progress effect system for Haskell 🚧

effect-zoo - Comparing Haskell effect systems for ergonomics and speed

seed7 - Source code of Seed7

linear - Low-dimensional linear algebra primitives for Haskell.

vim-multiple-cursors - True Sublime Text style multiple selections for Vim