I have been thinking about algebraic effects and handlers for low-level systems programming:
Inspired by the way Zig exposes memory allocation pretty pervasively, I was wondering if I'd be able to have allocators be some kind of 'effect' in Pikelet: ziglang.org/#Manual-memory 1/3
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This leads to an annoying cycle of features however. If effects need to be reified as data, then will yielding effects also require effects? 😳 There are ways to optimise away handlers using inlining and fusion, but this goes to a more fundamental level I think? 2/3
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So I was wondering: Is there some dual(?) notion to algebraic effects and handlers? Where you inject handlers rather than executing on reified effects after the fact? I think this might look something like how Clean does effects with uniqueness typing: clean.cs.ru.nl/download/html_ 3/3
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Oh, the other tricky thing is that this would somehow need to interact with some sort of region/borrowing system I'm guessing? 😳 Dunno if a type system like Granule's (granule-project.github.io) could help here 🤔 Waves hopefully at 👋