Maybe I'm too archaic but I do not share the author's hope that algebraic effects will ever become prevalently used. They certainly can be useful now and then, but the similitude with dynamic scoping brings too many painful memories.
I wouldn't worry. Even the simplest and most friendly effects library: https://effect.website
Shows clearly why they will never be a mainstream concept. The value proposition is only there when you have more elaborate concurrency needs. But that is a tiny fraction of the applications most people are writing today.
> The value proposition is only there when you have more elaborate concurrency needs
I see the value every day when I look at a shitty piece of JavaScript or Python code that secretly modifies some global state behind the scenes.
Or when I want to do dependency injection without resorting to frameworks doing some magic. Yes, I could drill my dependencies through the entire call stack, and often do because it's nicely explicit. But stuff like `logger` really doesn't belong in the function signature if it can be avoided.
Highly unlikely. JavaScript simply isn't a language built with this kind of evaluation model in mind, so an external library introducing completely orthogonal concepts surely should not be modeled as "most friendly". Don't get me wrong — Effect can be great! But the library also deliberately does not market itself as simple, rather as modular and multi-faceted, a "toolbox" from which developers may (should?) choose some tools and omit others.
A language that supports effects first-hand, like the proposed "Ante", would provide a much a more expressive, possibly simpler, and definitely friendlier approach than TS effect ever could.
