Effective way to get your teammates to want to learn all about Applicative and Monad: ask them to write JSON decoding code in Swift.
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correction: how to make people hate monads. "Wait, I have to do all this just to parse JSON … why?"
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that's the problem with most these monad tutorials, they all end with "and now we can print to the screen!"
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I think I learned more effective Swift by doing that and going "does this make sense?" than any other thing so far.
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given how long it took me to do this, I do not envy your decision making skills right about now :D
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its quite funny you mention this. I had a similar thought 48 hours ago during my swiftathon. I need to paste the result hah