Everything I Was Lied to About Node.js Came True with Elixir

[mike1o1]

https://d-gate.io/blog/everything-i-was-lied-to-about-node-came-true-with-elixir

[rohan_]

Wonder what the author thinks about https://effect.website/

[josh_p → rohan_]

Thanks for this! I didn’t know this library existed. I’ve used a couple of other small libraries to get rust-like error handling and patterns into my Typescript projects. But this is way more comprehensive.

I’m going to give it a try.

[dyl000 → rohan_]

I like ideas from effect, I use my custom result type all over my application as well as my custom tryCatch & promise.allSettled wrappers.

Issue comes down to you need to wrap all of your code in effect/results. Something like rust has that built in so you're not really 'jamming' it in there.

It adds a bunch of boilerplate. Still better than the mess that is exception throwing.

[phildenhoff → rohan_]

Does Effect prevent workers that have uncaught exceptions from crashing the main thread in Node? Does it reduce the amount of memory workers use?

[dyl000 → phildenhoff]

I’d assume effect would increase how much memory JS uses, you’re creating a bunch of memory junk.

In theory it should make you able to contain errors with exception handing.

[arend321]

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43317950