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# The Effect Handler Soup — Pushing Effect Handlers into the Mainstream
Effect Handlers are one of the hot topics in programming language research at present. While the original ideas of effect systems1 are “old” (Lucassen and Gifford 1988; Lucassen 1987)2, there has been an accelerating flurry of research in the last 15 years since effect handlers were introduced (Plotkin and Pretnar 2009), leaving a soup of possibilities to choose from and explore when designing and implementing an effect handler system.
Read more# I'm Attending ICFP & SPLASH 2025! (5 posts)
I've just landed in Singapore to attend my first conference, the world leading ICFP/SPLASH 2025, over the coming week. Looking forward to broadening my horizons on the state of research in programming language design, theory, and implementation; there looks to be many interesting talks in the program. I'll be documenting my thoughts on some of what I see in the next few days.
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