Global Key-Value Metadata Storage for Scryer Prolog
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https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/stdlib/ets.html
Essentially system-global state under named tables.
Have/did you consider having named `env` instances? This would allow for say, feature flags to be kept in a `features` set of relations.
You could also draw from Erlang's 'match specs' and query with a predicate over the keys.