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Show HN: Hacn – a React “monad” implemented using F#/Fable

#1

Post by pjnz » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 8:00 PM UTC

Show HN: Hacn – a React “monad” implemented using F#/Fable
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Re: Show HN: Hacn – a React “monad” implemented using F#/Fable

#2

Post by amir734jj » Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 6:15 AM UTC

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Show HN: Hacn – a React “monad” implemented using F#/Fable

#3

Post by yccs27 » Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 8:32 PM UTC

I love seeing how much you can do with monads, and React with its (semi)-functional paradigm seems like a good fit.

I wish the readme discussed the “how do i write code with this library“ part more, with a separate explaination of the technical (monadic etc) details. The line “like an implicit goto“ sounds incredibly scary - I would drop this analogy.

Re: Show HN: Hacn – a React “monad” implemented using F#/Fable

#4

Post by pjnz » Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 10:33 PM UTC

yccs27 wrote: post #3

I love seeing how much you can do with monads, and React with its (semi)-functional paradigm seems like a good fit. I wish the readme discussed the “how do i write code with this library“ part more, with a separate explaination of the technical (monadic etc) details. The line “like an implicit goto“ sounds incredibly scary - I would drop this analogy.

Thanks for the feedback! I'll try find some time to write a decent tutorial. I'll also remove the implicit goto bit, it's hard to find a good analogy for how the control flow works.