unliftio VS layers

Compare unliftio vs layers and see what are their differences.

unliftio

The MonadUnliftIO typeclass for unlifting monads to IO (by fpco)

layers

Modular type class machinery for monad transformer stacks. (by duairc)
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unliftio layers
5 -
150 33
0.0% -
3.9 0.0
4 months ago over 5 years ago
Haskell Haskell
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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unliftio

Posts with mentions or reviews of unliftio. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-14.
  • UnliftIO, ExceptT and Coercible
    1 project | /r/haskell | 18 Feb 2023
    FWIW, your suggestion is very similar to a proposed instance for MonadUnliftIO (ExceptT e), except that effectfuls use of the type system means that it doesn't suffer from one of the proposed downsides (dubious interaction with catchAny).
  • How introduce `ResourceT` into my stack
    3 projects | /r/haskell | 14 Oct 2022
    Possibly interesting thread here: https://github.com/fpco/unliftio/issues/68
  • Is `MonadBaseControl` dead?
    3 projects | /r/haskell | 21 Jun 2021
    Any way quoting u/snoyberg : https://github.com/fpco/unliftio/issues/17#issuecomment-363655106
  • Try.do is dangerous
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 23 Dec 2020
    That's not true. It's just writing that instance is a bit tricky: https://github.com/fpco/unliftio/issues/68
  • Try.do for recoverable errors in Haskell
    1 project | /r/haskell | 21 Dec 2020
    However, ExceptT cannot be an instance of MonadUnliftIO – because it necessarily requires multiple exit points. See this discussion which should give you an idea of how hairy and unpredictable this can be.

layers

Posts with mentions or reviews of layers. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing unliftio and layers you can also consider the following projects:

recursion-schemes - Generalized bananas, lenses and barbed wire

record - Anonymous records

lifted-base - IO operations from the base library lifted to any instance of MonadBase or MonadBaseControl

freer-simple - A friendly effect system for Haskell

mmorph - Monad morphisms

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

Workflow - re-startable monad that recover the execution state from a log, and workflow patterns

apecs - a fast, extensible, type driven Haskell ECS framework for games

managed - A monad for managed values

deepseq - Deep evaluation of data structures

exceptional - A simple Haskell type for pure code that could go wrong.

monad-control - Lift control operations, like exception catching, through monad transformers