You look at libraries like Effect, and it's genuinely incredible work, but you can't help feeling like... Man, so many languages partially address these problems with first-class primitives and control flow tooling.

I'm grateful for their work and it's an awesome project, but it's a clear reflection of the deficiencies in the language and runtime.

With Go you can compile binaries with bindings for other binaries, like duckdb or sqlite or so on. With deno or bun, you're out of luck. It's such a drag. Regardless, it's been quite useful at my work to be able to send CLI utilities around and know they'll 'just work'. I maintain a few for scientific data processing and gardening (parsing, analysis, cleaning, etc) which is why the lack of duckdb bundling is such a thorn. I do wish I could use Go instead and pack everything directly into the binary.