alt Hacker NewsThe thing that makes monads difficult is laziness and the anti math circle jerk.
You start from a functor which is a data type that admits a map operation.
Then you add of, or pure, to make an applicative functor, and then you add flatmap to make a monad.
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LoganDark • yesterday at 11:15 PM
> The thing that makes monads difficult is laziness and the anti math circle jerk.
That's quite a hateful way to describe lack of knowledge.
There are some prerequisites that make it easier to understand monads, and a lot of programmers don't even know those. That can make learning monads difficult right off the bat.
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It's odd, the stereotype of software developers is a know-it-all attitude, but start talking about types and you get excuses that boil down to 'I'm incapable of learning to understand the thing you learned to understand'.