[alipang]

Monads are among the simplest abstractions you can find in computing. Compared to almost anything you need to understand in software development (how the hell do I make webpack do the thing I need?) they're ridiculously easy.

The fact that so many devs are scared of monads and believe outrageously silly things like you need a math phd to understand them seems to be similar to being afraid of drinking dihydrogen monoxide. Even though it's only water, it has a complicated sounding scary name, so it must be bad.

[saagarjha]

There’s also a huge number of people who are fairly bad at explaining what exactly it is. I don’t think I should fault them, per se, it’s sort of trying to explain why water is wet.