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

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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    2 days ago

    When I read about Monads, it looks like to me like generic Rust struct with a generic trait and a (more complex) result as a return value. I have no idea if this is what a Monad basically is or not. For context, I never learned Haskell properly (just tried hello world and read a few topics).

    • bitcrafter@programming.dev
      6·
      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.