Abstracting Effects with Continuations

Software Development, Programming Languages, Functional Programming(crowdhailer.me)view on HackerNews

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Author: crowdhailer

Date: 7/16/2026

Article Summary:

This article discusses the use of continuations in the Gleam programming language to abstract effects such as errors and asynchronous computations, allowing for a single definition of business logic that can be reused with different runners.