What a monoid is and why monoids kick monads’ butt

Everyone talks about monads but monoids are where it’s at. Monoids are simple and make distributed computation a breeze. In this episode, we learn the two properties that make an operation a monoid, and how to use it do distributed computation.

Show Notes

For audio, video, and text transcripts: https://lispcast.com/what-a-monoid-is-and-why-monoids-kick-monads-butt/

What is The Eric Normand Podcast?

An off-the-cuff stream of Functional Programming ideas, skills, patterns, and news from Functional Programming expert Eric Normand of LispCast. Formerly known as Thoughts on Functional Programming.