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by tome 212 days ago
> Effect systems are a trend that will go away

I'm willing to bet the contrary: that IO-wrapper effect systems are the future of Haskell (particularly Bluefin, but then that's my library, so I would say that).

> You can't statically guarantee that only, for example, the DB has side effects in a function

Yes, you absolutely can.