For the past few years in the functional Scala community, the standard approach for adding features to an effect type (features like logging, stateful updates, or accessing config) has been Monad Transformers (EItherT, OptionT, WriterT, ReaderT, etc.).



While elegant and proven, monad transformers were imported directly from Haskell, and in Scala, they have poor ergonomics and poor performance. Using tagless-final on transformers can eliminate some of the boilerplate, but cannot improve performance, and tagless-final makes it insanely hard to locally introduce and eliminate features.



In this presentation, John will introduce an alternate approach he coined ‘effect rotation’, which shares most of the power of monad transformers, but with better ergonomics and no loss of performance. You will see how to use the ZIO library that John created to composably add different features into the ZIO effect type, to solve the same problems as monad transformers, but in a way that feels natural and idiomatic for Scala.



==== About the Presenter ====



John is a well known functional programmer and architect in Scala community. He has been contributing and leading many projects, most notably ZIO and ScalaZ. He is the main organizer behind LambdaConf, one of the most popular conference in FP space.