Re:Monads are monoids in the category of endofunctors
by brundolf on Thursday September 09, 2021 @11:43PM
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> those meanings are useless without some sort of interesting application
They're useful when trying to grok other blog posts or discussions that talk about them (often in service to some further concept that you have no hope of understanding without knowing that first layer of terminology)
> My brain had been getting stuck on this random terminology and this just unclogged it
Exactly! What I'm requesting is that the FP community at large gets more comfortable with the idea of providing those "X is roughly just Y" comparisons for newcomers, so they don't get stuck on all the random terminology and can be "unclogged".
They're useful when trying to grok other blog posts or discussions that talk about them (often in service to some further concept that you have no hope of understanding without knowing that first layer of terminology)
> My brain had been getting stuck on this random terminology and this just unclogged it
Exactly! What I'm requesting is that the FP community at large gets more comfortable with the idea of providing those "X is roughly just Y" comparisons for newcomers, so they don't get stuck on all the random terminology and can be "unclogged".