miniblog.

I like the notion of "pac-man complete", the idea that your programming language needs enough effects/IO to do a 2D game: https://prog21.dadgum.com/23.html We should have more levels of language capability. 'Can do Hello World' and 'can do fizzbuzz' are useful for a new language.

Effects and code as a database in Unison: https://jaredforsyth.com/posts/whats-cool-about-unison/ Unison is looking at changing their program representation to plain sqlite!

Rust is exploring ideas that allow it to generalise over effects, so you don't need foo and foo_async. It's an unusual name, and potentially complicates error messages, but it's good problem to examine.