Free Monad or Tagless Final? How Not to Commit to a Monad Too Early
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Functional programming is on the rise; monads are everywhere. But how to choose the right wrapper for the values which we manipulate (i.e. monad)? Quite often, the answer is far from obvious, and it’s useful to delay the decision as much as possible. Furthermore, picking a particular monad too early might only obscure important business logic details.
There are (at least) two ways to solve the problem, which are quite popular: free monads and the tagless final encoding. Both are equivalent in expressive power, but are radically different when it comes to code.
In this live-coding talk, you will learn how to transform a simple application which relies on Futures into more generic forms, using either the free monad or tagless final. You will discover how these two representations compare in terms of boilerplate, readability, composability and stack-safety. You will also explore which approach might be a better fit for selected use-ca
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Free Monad or Tagless Final? How Not to Commit to a Monad Too Early
Adam Warski
Adam is one of the co-founders of SoftwareMill, a company specialising in delivering customised software solutions. He codes mostly on the back-end using Scala and other interesting technologies. Adam created a couple of open-source projects, such as sttp, MacWire, Hibernate Envers and ElasticMQ. He has been a speaker at major conferences, such as Devoxx, JavaOne, LambdaConf and ScalaDays.