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by petesergeant 354 days ago
> Monads in software are just a standard API for any given type. That’s it. Theres no magic here.

I don’t think that’s helpful for people to understand _why_ monads though, and that’s generally what people are looking for.

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a standard api is the magic. when you can talk to anything via a standard api it creates uniformity and standard blocks you can build from