has anyone ever researched/documented the interaction between encoding a large number of effects/dependent-types and API evolution? I'm concerned "usable" forms require lots of inference, which means lots of potential breaking changes to public APIs.
r.e. your list of things worth encoding, I think the only one that's really worth doing is constexpr and maybe i/o purity (I generally always lean towards "this type does I/O, other types take this one as an arg" regardless so I don't care as much)
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I do think that *in general* spending a lot of time considering how changes will affect your users goes a very long way. If everybody in OSS did this, we would have a lot fewer of these discussions
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There's a lot of value in having a connection with your larger users, and being able to just ask "hey does this commit break your app?". Crater is nice, but ultimately the real breakage is from the servos of the world, and apps of that size are rarely open source.
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