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treydtoday at 12:50 PM1 replyview on HN

Keyword generics are probably not happening because it's kinda a hack.

Algebraic effects are the way forward, but that's a long way off.


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satvikpendemtoday at 2:24 PM

Yes I hope in the future we can get to what OCaml 5 has with their algebraic effects system, and hopefully fix any flaws we see in there, so that async will just be syntactic sugar over the underlying effects system.