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Monads and Gonads

Google TechTalks · 148.1K views · 2013-01-16 · 49:47

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Douglas Crockford's Google Tech Talk explains monads without category theory or Haskell, implementing them in JavaScript and tying them to Ajax and promises. He also touches on odd asides such as coloring code by scope.

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Often recommended as a demystifying monad talk in plain JavaScript, though some find it light on definitions.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2013–2022

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scotty79 · 2019-10 · Strong recommendation

The one thing that made monads clearer for me was this thing [VIDEO] Monads and Gonads It's probably condescending for haskellers because it shows that monads are not some enshrined primary concept but just a kind of dumb wrapper you can write in any language and you do when it's useful for you.

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nnq · 2016-09 · Strong recommendation

also, this indirectly reminded me of what I thought to be one of DC's greatest talks: Monads and Gonads ( [VIDEO] )

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sargstuff · 2022-10 · Reference

combobulate (alpha quality as of 10/22): source code outline/cliff notes. from github README.rst "Emacs package that provides a standardized framework for manipulating and navigating your source code using tree sitter's concrete syntax tree " -> [LINK] [LINK] with [LINK] then write a iterator/loop query for language(s) editing per [LINK] tad less installation heavy (sorta) but also makes use of tree-sitter syntax queries : [LINK] (neovim with treesitter syntax) blockman usage examples: [LINK] Alternative examples / takes (per user interface): ### embedding a block of source code in a document: ** carrotsearch.gethub.io/apidocs/code-blocks ** [LINK] ### 'colorize blocking' (vs space endenting) : ** example code reference coloring: [VIDEO] ### gui block programming : ** [LINK] ** [LINK]

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