I still dunno what monads are and at this point I'm way too afraid to ask
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The way I learned was to use a language with them in there nicely- eg. Elm, Rust, Haskell, OCaml, Purescript, without really understanding them first. You’ll begin to notice that certain functions are quite similar between types. At that stage you’re ready to learn the theory!
For me it was noticing the commonalities between the APIs of Option and Result in Rust (eg. the and_then and map methods). There’s a design pattern there! Rust obscures that design pattern somewhat, but it was a decent enough jumping off point for me.
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Also highly recommend following and reading anything she writes! twitter.com/argumatronic/s - this stuff can be mind bending, but it’s beautiful and worth learning! 🤩
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Yeah I wrote a thing about monads in Haskell terms but without assuming much knowledge of Haskell or any typed FP. argumatronic.com/posts/2018-01-
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