Specifically, I’m interested in BEAM, but I’m not sure if I should go for Elixir or Gleam. What seems cool about Gleam is that it has static typing.

I have no experience with functional programming at all btw

  • bitcrafter@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    You should think of Monad as basically giving you a way to provide your own implementation of the semicolon operator so that you can dictate what it means to sequence computations of a given type.

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
      3·
      2 days ago

      I think the mistake I do (and many others) is trying to compare existing mechanisms from other languages, without the full picture around that mechanic. Every time I think to understand what a Monad is, its wrong. :D Guess I have to dive deeper to understand what that actually means, not just as an explanation. Just out of curiosity.