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by picardo 1290 days ago
Same here. I drank the cool aid a few years back, and started using fp-ts in my frontend projects, hoping to use algebraic data types regularly. But today all I use is the Monad. I can't find any motivation to write abstract algebra to build UI widgets.
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> I can't find any motivation to write abstract algebra to build UI widgets

This made me chuckle, because I am at this very moment trying to apply the "tagless final style" described here[0] to a custom GUI in a personal-for-fun-and-learning ocaml project : )

[0] https://okmij.org/ftp/tagless-final/course/optimizations.htm...