> but to my mind monads are common and broadly understood Wow, you need to talk to more developers. Not just in the sense to broaden your views, but to improve

> but to my mind monads are common and broadly understood Wow, you need to talk to more developers. Not just in the sense to broaden your views, but to improve your skills as a developer. Code is written to be read by humans (and orthogonally executed by machines). If your mental model of what is broadly understood by programmers is that far off, you are likely churning out lots of unmaintainable code. Functional programming makes up a tiny slice of the programming world and most people that aren't doing functional programming (and even some who are) don't have a strong grasp of monads.