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It is syntax sugar for CPS [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation-passing_style

EDIT: I believe prior art is Koka's with statement: https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/book.html#sec-with

Hmm, it definitely looks more interesting in combination with effect handlers. Still not sure I find it super compelling in Gleam vs just not using callbacks.

It’s a generalization of async/await syntax in languages like JavaScript or Swift. I like that it provides a generalized syntax that could be used for coroutines, generators, or async/await without adding any of those specifically to the language syntactically.

One level of callback nesting in a function is totally fine, two is a bit confusing, but if you have many async things going on do you really want 10, 15, 20 levels of nesting? What to do about loops?

I certainly greatly prefer async programming with async/await languages that keep the appearance of linear function execution to stacking my callbacks and having a ton of nesting everywhere

Sounds like the new “capabilities” stuff in Scala.

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