Programming Languages

Effekt

As opposed to the other members of the Effekt family, Effekt is a new standalone language. It extracts the essence of most of the other embedded language variants in a simple core calculus.

The language Effekt attempts to close the gap between research languages with effect handlers and languages for working programmers. The design of Effekt revolves around a different view of effects and effect types. Traditionally, effect types express which side effects a computation might have. In Effekt, effect types express which capabilities a computation requires from its context. This new point in the design space simplifies the treatment of effect polymorphism and the related issues of effect parametricity and effect encapsulation.

We invite you to visit the Effekt homepage and read the technical report.

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From Capabilities to Regions: Enabling Efficient Compilation of Lexical Effect Handlers

by Marius Müller, Philipp Schuster, Jonathan Lindegaard Starup, Klaus Ostermann, and Jonathan Immanuel Brachthäuser

In Proc. Int’l Conf. Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA), 2023.

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All About That Stack: A Unified Treatment of Regions and Control Effects

by Philipp Schuster, Jonathan Immanuel Brachthäuser, and Klaus Ostermann

Technical report. University of Tübingen, Germany, 2021.

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Compiling Effect Handlers in Capability-Passing Style

by Philipp Schuster, Jonathan Immanuel Brachthäuser, and Klaus Ostermann

In Proc. Int’l Conf. Functional Programming (ICFP). ACM Press, 2020.

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Effect Handlers, Evidently

by Ningning Xie, Jonathan Immanuel Brachthäuser, Daniel Hillerström, Philipp Schuster, and Daan Leijen

In Proc. Int’l Conf. Functional Programming (ICFP). ACM Press, 2020.

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Effekt: Lightweight Effect Polymorphism for Handlers (Technical Report)

by Jonathan Immanuel Brachthäuser, Philipp Schuster, and Klaus Ostermann

Technical report. University of Tübingen, Germany, 2020.

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Effects as Capabilities: Effect Handlers and Lightweight Effect Polymorphism

by Jonathan Immanuel Brachthäuser, Philipp Schuster, and Klaus Ostermann

In Proc. Int’l Conf. Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA). ACM Press, 2020.

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Zero-cost Effect Handlers by Staging (Technical Report)

by Philipp Schuster, Jonathan Immanuel Brachthäuser, and Klaus Ostermann

Technical report. University of Tübingen, Germany, 2019.

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