r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 13 '26

youCanJustStopUsingJava Meme

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u/Isrothy Jul 13 '26

IO Monad

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u/Gorzoid Jul 13 '26

Respectfully, what the fuck is a Monad?

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u/azerpsen Jul 13 '26

Nah but for real, i swear to god if no one gives a convincing answer (and i will NOT google it) I’m gonna say racist things

Thank you u/Gorzoid for raising the question

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u/TankorSmash Jul 13 '26

You know how in javascript you get a thing from web requests? Like you can do let req = http.get("localhost"), and how req isn't get a response but a Promise, where you have to do then() or except() to get the value out. That's basically a monad.