"Can we please show people what actually works from Haskell instead of just saying monads and then giggling about it?" — I think the speaker would wholeheartedl

"Can we please show people what actually works from Haskell instead of just saying monads and then giggling about it?" — I think the speaker would wholeheartedly agree with you. In several places, he says that learning and applying functional concepts can be hard, that it takes intellectual work, that is isn't just "magic". Actual, useful application came up quite a lot at the conference, Javier Soto talked about async programming https://realm.io/news/swift-summit-javier-soto-futures/ https://realm.io/news/swift-summit-javier-soto-futures/, and there's a decent talk with "Monad" in the title that makes jokes, sure (given the context you'd expect it), but also definitely educates https://realm.io/news/swift-summit-al-skipp-monads/ https://realm.io/news/swift-summit-al-skipp-monads/ If you're heading out to WWDC, Abizer Nasir is elaborating the talk for AltConf, Wednesday 10th. A good chance to talk this over in person: http://altconf.com/schedule/ http://altconf.com/schedule/