Adds Collections and Fixes Effects & HTTP With Collections

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TLDR

Enhances language expressiveness with List and Map collections, boosts type safety, expands effects system, and strengthens HTTP testing.

What Was Added?

• List and Map collection types with structural sharing, type inference and compile-time safety.
• Enhanced functional operations support
• Several new comprehensive examples showcasing effects and collections.

What Was Changed / Deleted?

• Improves type safety and polymorphism
• Extends the effects system
• Enhances HTTP example to demonstrate client-server communication with various HTTP methods
• Updates and fixes several tests

How Do The Automated Tests Prove It Works?

• Extensive additions and fixes to integration tests to cover new collection types, effects system improvements and HTTP functionalities.

Summarise Changes To The Spec Here

• Adds List and Map Collection Types to the Spec
• Expands Effects System Description
• Enhances HTTP API Functionality Description