alt Hacker NewsEquating "algebraic effects" with "continuations" is like saying "if" is just "goto" (which isn't even true, e.g., an if can turn into a cmov or whatever).
The only mystique around algebraic effects is the same mystique there is around monads. I don't know if people have started equating algebraic effects to burritos yet but that's a pretty good way to take something simple and turn it into something confusing.
> Equating "algebraic effects" with "continuations" is like saying "if" is just "goto"
Fair enough. But are you responding to something I said? I didn't make that equation.
> The only mystique around algebraic effects is the same mystique there is around monads. I don't know if people have started equating algebraic effects to burritos yet but that's a pretty good way to take something simple and turn it into something confusing.
Ah, are you saying that fundamentally there isn't really much to algebraic effects and they're much simpler than they're made out to be? If so then it perhaps we agree?