Functional Containers Summary: Functor vs Applicative vs Monad

A deep dive into some basic of category theory and their impact on software engineering

Bartłomiej Żyliński
SoftwareMill Tech Blog
9 min readNov 30, 2023

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In this text, the final summary of my categories theory series, I will use my spotlight and take a closer look at the relations between all three previously described functional containers, namely: Functor, Monad…

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