Wikipedia
Articles/Blog Posts
- "Algebraic effects for the rest of us"
- "Algebraic effects for Functional Programming": "Algebraic effect handlers, are recently gaining in popularity as a purely functional approach to modeling effects. In this article, we give an end-to-end overview of practical algebraic effects in the context of a compiled implementation in the Koka language. In particular, we show how algebraic effects generalize over common constructs like exception handling, state, iterators and async-await. We give an effective type inference algorithm based on extensible effect rows using scoped labels, and a direct operational semantics. Finally, we show an efficient compilation scheme to common runtime platforms (such as JavaScript, the JVM, or .NET) using a type directed selective CPS translation."
- Reddit: What are the issues with algebraic effects?
Languages
Libraries
- Algebraic Effects
- TypeScript: fx-ts
- JavaScript: creed: Sophisticated and functionally-minded async with advanced features: coroutines, promises, ES2015 iterables, fantasy-land
- JavaScript: forgefx: Algebraic effects and handlers using generators
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Last modified 15 March 2026