This tutorial explains how Unison handles 'effectful' computations, like storing state or performing I/O, using abilities. It assumes you haven't come across abilities before, and covers everything from the ground up.
This is an unofficial tutorial, written before the one on unisonweb.org/docs. The approach taken here is slow and methodical. Your first stop should be the official tutorial, if you haven't seen it already.
This doc is a Unison transcript - the source is here.
Terminology note: other languages with ability systems typically call them 'effect handlers' or 'algebraic effects', but many of the ideas are the same.
