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Re:Types of types: Haskell's Kind system by girvo on Saturday October 17, 2026 @07:07PM (#50136005)
And here I was convinced that they’re burritos!

I will say that explaining functors to my coworkers was always much simpler, and then naturally led to monads

Re:Types of types: Haskell's Kind system by hexasquid on Saturday October 17, 2026 @09:13PM (#50136856)
I suspect all branches of tech have their rite of passage.

For haskellers, it is writing a monad tutorial

For javascripters, it is writing a framework

For make-stuff-with-LLM people, it is producing a diagram explaining your code generation factory

... and so on