Remove FS dependency?

[paf31]

It only exists to pull in the FS effect, for requireResolve. Maybe we could just introduce a separate effect for this?

[hdgarrood]

I think introducing too many distinct effect types would be annoying for application developers, and FS does seem like the right effect for this. If dependencies are becoming a pain perhaps we should reconsider merging all the node APIs into a single package?

[garyb]

Or a variation on that: we could have all the node effects in a single package, perhaps?

[hdgarrood]

Yeah, that seems like it could work well.

[hdgarrood]

What are the others? CHILD_PROCESS, PROCESS, HTTP, READLINE, have I missed any?

[paf31]

Maybe some can be consolidated, like READLINE and CONSOLE or CHILD_PROCESS and PROCESS. I think a SOCKET or NETWORK effect would make sense to unify node-sockets and HTTP too.

[garyb]

CHILD_PROCESS and PROCESS can't really, the former is when you're spawning and manging other processes, whereas process is for finding out info about the current process. The distinction definitely seems worthwhile to me.

[hdgarrood]

Yeah, arguably we shouldn't merge READLINE and CONSOLE either, as readline has little to do with consoles specifically, it's for consuming plain text streams one line at a time. A NETWORK effect sounds like a good idea to me though.

[paf31]

I assumed readline was for reading stdin and console for writing to stdout. That's a simplification, but they're both "text i/o" related.

[garyb]

One for this list: the BUFFER effect.