Forget Monads: Embrace Natural Transformations
2025-08-07
This article challenges the overuse of Monads in functional programming. The author argues that the concept of Monads is overly abstract and proposes using the underlying natural transformations directly for programming. Using the Я language as an example, the article explains how to combine different Functors using natural transformations, comparing this approach to Monad Transformers. It ultimately advocates replacing Monads with more flexible, lower-level natural transformations for cleaner and more powerful program design.
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