Monads

This post explores the hierarchy of functional abstractions by reframing Functors, Applicatives, and Monads as a ladder of expressive power, moving from simple context-aware mapping to independent effect composition and eventually the sequential dependency of the Monad.

This post demystifies Haskell monads by reframing them as a familiar design pattern for managing context, transitioning from practical code examples in multiple languages to the underlying category theory of monoids over endofunctors.