THE VIDEO SHELF · monads in javascript
Monads and Gonads
Douglas Crockford's Google Tech Talk explains monads without category theory or Haskell, implementing them in JavaScript and tying them to Ajax and promises. He also touches on odd asides such as coloring code by scope.
Why HN readers recommended it
Often recommended as a demystifying monad talk in plain JavaScript, though some find it light on definitions.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Google TechTalks
- Topic
- monads in javascript
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 11
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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also, this indirectly reminded me of what I thought to be one of DC's greatest talks: Monads and Gonads ( [VIDEO] )
nnq on Hacker News · 2016-09
In In defence of Douglas CrockfordThe one thing that made monads clearer for me was this thing [VIDEO] Monads and Gonads It's probably condescending for haskellers because it shows that monads are not some enshrined primary concept but just a kind of dumb wrapper you can write in any language …
scotty79 on Hacker News · 2019-10
In Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other programming language
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