transient vs safe-exceptions

transient

A full stack, reactive architecture for general purpose programming. Algebraic and monadically composable primitives for concurrency, parallelism, event handling, transactions, multithreading, Web, and distributed computing with complete de-inversion of control (No callbacks, no blocking, pure state) (by transient-haskell)

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safe-exceptions

Safe, consistent, and easy exception handling (by fpco)

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transient		safe-exceptions
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-	Mentions	3
629	Stars	132
0.3%	Growth	0.0%
0.0	Activity	3.4
about 3 years ago	Latest Commit	6 months ago
Haskell	Language	Haskell
MIT License	License	MIT License

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transient

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

safe-exceptions

Posts with mentions or reviews of safe-exceptions. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-21.

Spooky Masks and Async Exceptions
1 project | /r/haskell | 30 Oct 2022

In case anyone is interested, there's a long discussion on this ticket. Still hoping somebody will respond to my comment.
Async Control Flow
7 projects | /r/haskell | 21 Mar 2021

In safe-exception and uniftio it was decided to rethrow the original exception exactly because they decided to use uninterruptibleMask, see here for details.
Why exactly I want Boring Haskell to happen
6 projects | /r/haskell | 9 Jan 2021

unliftio (and safe-exceptions) contains a very controversial choice of of using uninterruptibleMask inside its bracket. The argument for it seem to come from this issue and comes from the fact that one of the most popular resource finalizers hClose is interruptible. This is a simplification. It is interruptible only if a file handle is used concurrently. Such usage of file handles is rather odd, and it suggest wrong architecture, for example leaking file handles using concurrency. When using file handles in synchronous setting, what withFile pattern encourages, hClose will not block and thus mask is enough.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing transient and safe-exceptions you can also consider the following projects:

failure - A simple type class for success/failure computations.

ifcxt - constraint level if statements

arrowapply-utils - A test implementation of draft versions of CellML 1.2

unexceptionalio - IO without any PseudoExceptions

selective - Selective Applicative Functors: Declare Your Effects Statically, Select Which to Execute Dynamically

atl - Arrow Transformer Library

can-i-haz - Generic implementation of the Has pattern for MonadReader/MonadState and CoHas for MonadError

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

imm - Execute arbitrary actions for each unread element of RSS/Atom feeds

time-warp

transient-universe - A Cloud monad based on transient for the creation of Web and reactive distributed applications that are fully composable, where Web browsers are first class nodes in the cloud

recursion-schemes - Generalized bananas, lenses and barbed wire