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From error-handling to structured concurrency

Nelson Elhage · 23 Mar 2026 · blog.nelhage.com

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  1. But I struggle to envision a general, composable, concurrent paradigm without one.
  2. writing programs in this style makes it much easier to write correct and safe concurrent code