hackertube.io

Douglas Crockford: Monads and Gonads (YUIConf Evening Keynote)

YUI Library · talk · Watch on YouTube

Functional programmingWeb development

What it is

Douglas Crockford's YUIConf 2012 evening keynote tries to explain monads in a way programmers can actually understand, in the context of JavaScript. He aims to break the 'monad tutorial curse'.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Mentioned as a great talk alongside Crockford's book, and mostly quoted for his quip that once you understand monads you lose the ability to explain them.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2013, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “The Monads and Gonads talk [0] he gave is also great.”

    Crockford's monad talk is great alongside his book

    icc97, 2018-07 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: What you wish you'd known before getting into JavaScript?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: monads, javascript, functional programming, crockford

Also recommended by the same people