My advice: Try these two tutorials: http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2958 http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2958 https://philipnilsson.github.io/Badness10k/escaping-he

My advice: Try these two tutorials: http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2958 http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2958 https://philipnilsson.github.io/Badness10k/escaping-hell-with-monads/ https://philipnilsson.github.io/Badness10k/escaping-hell-wit... The first one I think cuts through all of the crap surrounding them. They're just a design pattern. And the second one helps motivate them, showing the many contexts where the design pattern many apply.