Monad patterns cut down on boilerplate even in languages where you might not strictly “need” them. I’ve been working on a project in Elixir and I found the writ

Monad patterns cut down on boilerplate even in languages where you might not strictly “need” them. I’ve been working on a project in Elixir and I found the writer monad to be exactly what I needed. I wrote about it here: https://lambdaland.org/posts/2024-05-01_definitely_not_about_monads/ https://lambdaland.org/posts/2024-05-01_definitely_not_about... A week or two ago, I found myself working in the same codebase. I had to do some refactoring and, thanks to the monad I had already established, the refactoring reduced code while expanding functionality. The best refactors happen when the patterns make it easy to do.