Tag: effect

All the articles with the tag "effect".

• Promises Were a Breakthrough: JavaScript Needs Better Concurrency Primitives

  Published:Sep 4, 2026 |  at 09:30 AM

  Promises were the right answer in 2015. Retry, cancellation, structured concurrency, and resource safety have outgrown them. Here's the model that fills the gap.

• Exceptions Are Broken: Errors as Contracts, Not Crashes

  Published:Sep 1, 2026 |  at 12:00 AM

  We treat errors as crash events for the runtime when we should treat them as contracts for the caller, with stable tags, typed payloads, and messages demoted to logs.