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by reinman 1455 days ago
Good points. See my enterprise data integration example below

Cats kinda live between trad code and databases, so they are really good at integration across systems. Zapier and other no-code approaches are nice but don't go deep enough and eventually you hit a wall. So cats are the "next level" down from such systems without having to abandon such tools entirely and go back to the old ways
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reinman 1455 days ago
Crafting is particularly useful in testing

For example, suppose you just need to isolate and test a function but you won't want to manually write a test harness

A crafting system could build the upstream dependencies and then deliver you the results - no code changes needed

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reinman 1455 days ago
Yes anything that says "Functional Programming" in the title tends to attract a certain type of developer tackling a certain type of problem, usually program verification etc.

Not mainstream programming for sure

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