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by mrkeen 27 days ago
"Generics" doesn't cut it. Most languages just can't functor.

Go - no. https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/v1ljep/monads_and_p...

Swift - no. https://forums.swift.org/t/higher-kinded-types-monads-functo...

Rust - no. https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/152bgj0/current_state...

"Awkward fmap" and "random collection of category theory concepts thrown together in a weekend" is great compared to the alternatives.