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This is the story of how I solved a problem (ugly, cumbersome boilerplate code) that I ran into while writing a program in a functional language (Elixir). Functional programming languages often pride themselves on expressiveness and elegance; but occasionally they are not amenable to the most obvious solutions to the problems we wish to solve. In this case, the simplest solution to my problem would have been to have a global mutable variable. But no one likes those.
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Occasional writings about Haskell.
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Monads are viewed as one of the harder topics to learn in Haskell. But they don't have to be. Learn monads the easy way, by first looking at other functional structures like functors and applicatives.
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[AI summary] This article explains Rust's memory safety guarantees by reframing the compiler's borrowing and lifetime checks as a system of unique versus shared access to data.
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