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Why everyone is talking about Effect (second edition)

One year later, and another surge of interest flowing into effect. Job postings, AI, Cluster, LSP, v4, and much more. The best time to learn effect is now, and this is why.


Sandro Maglione

Sandro Maglione

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Effect is on the rise (again) 📈

It was more than a year ago that I published Why everyone is talking about Effect (v1).

We are at it again today, and with some interesting updates 👇


TLDR of what's new

A few stars aligning in the last few weeks:

  • Job postings looking for effect engineers
  • @effect/workflow
  • Effect AI
  • Effect LSP
  • Effect Days (talks)
  • Effect smol

Let's unpack the situation 🤔

Jobs will require effect

First (major) point is the surge of companies opting for effect:

My feed on X is filled with "looking for effect engineers" posts. And you can find that and more also in the jobs channel of the Effect Discord:

Would love to chat with any @EffectTS_ developers interested in joining a high-velocity team that is all in on Effect. We're a team of <5 (ex-FANG/Quant Trading) that has scaled our product to 50K daily active users in the last year. The role is remote with a base comp of 140K

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Hiring! I'm on a well-funded stealth team working on an AI consumer app that's grown to 50K DAU in the last year. It's an extremely fast growing space with lots of interesting challenges We're looking to hire an engineering team member that can work across the stack. You'd be

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Cluster is coming

Some real cooking is boiling under the scenes 👀

The most recent member of the team is @effect/workflow:

This is all part of the expansion towards cluster/workflows. The complexity is real, but someone (Tim) is working to figure it all out for you, and deliver an effect-experience there as well.

Effect AI

Effect is also about to become the best tool to interact with AI 🙌

AI models, agents, MCPs. All packaged in another sublime effect-experience. This is another area of rapid progress:

Effect LSP

If all the above wasn't enough, your IDE experience with effect is also about to elevate to the next level:

  • Effect.gen autocompletion
  • Check duplicated package for Effect's peer dependency
  • Quick-info hover for yield* statements
  • type to Schema refactor

AI is also slowly but steadily getting better at figuring out effect. Speed and safety 🚀

Effect Days

The talks from the Effect Days are landing one after the other on YouTube:

This attracts a crowd of people who consume video, get them interested, and eventually land on the docs, X, or Typeonce.

Effect smol

The cherry on top of this all is the upcoming v4 of effect (aka Effect smol):

  • Smaller bundle size ("smol")
  • Faster
  • Reduced/Simpler API surface

The best time to learn effect was 2 year ago, the second best time is now 💯

Check out my Effect: Beginners Complete Getting Started if you are new to effect 🤝

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