I recently wrote an explanation aimed at Scala developers, so if the syntax is not an obstacle this may help: https://upsolver.engineering/posts/monads-are-not-

I recently wrote an explanation aimed at Scala developers, so if the syntax is not an obstacle this may help: https://upsolver.engineering/posts/monads-are-not-that-complicated/ https://upsolver.engineering/posts/monads-are-not-that-compl... In short: Functors (a tightly related concept) are about types that have ‘.map()’, and Monads are Functors that in addition have ‘.flatMap()’.