cargo-watch VS fantasy-land

I used cargo-watch here so that every time my source changes, the server will automatically restart and re-serve the updated code.

watch-one-test test_name: # More info on cargo test: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-test.html # More info on cargo watch: https://github.com/watchexec/cargo-watch cargo watch -x check -x 'test -- --test-threads=1 --nocapture {{test_name}}' -c -q

Rust: RPDS https://docs.rs/rpds/latest/rpds/ and Im https://docs.rs/im/latest/im/

Rust isn’t great for letting you do FP things like other languages, but it does have the best type system imho which makes it the leading functional programming language right now imho. If you’re not using too many specialized python packages then I recommend using Rust instead, even for toy demos, as you can be more confident your code works without needing to run it and wait for a crash like you would in debugging python, and the tests also run faster in rust due to the incremental compilation. Use cargo-watch and you can retest your code every time you save your work.

https://github.com/watchexec/cargo-watch

I usually write a make command to cargo watch and rerun each test file : code file pair independently so then you won’t rerun your tests in other modules when you change the one you work on (faster but might miss stuff if you change API contracts which touch other parts of your codebase)

you can use cargo-watch to real time run tests on save in your attached vs code console session which is about as close to what you're asking as I think exists for rust

Note that cargo, by virtue of being a package manager for a programming language, is primarily going to be dealing with library packages. That's not because it can't manage executables (see cargo-watch for a particularly useful example), it's just that it's less common.

Also check out cargo-watch -- https://crates.io/crates/cargo-watch

Unless there's a new issue, I think this is what was here: https://github.com/watchexec/cargo-watch/issues/249

A feature that I look for whenever possible in my development environment is Hot Reload, with it, every time a file is changed and saved the application restarts, so the cycle of writing-evaluating-refactoring code becomes extremely fast, for Rust, we have cargo watch, I suggest taking a look at the documentation for more details.

2. https://github.com/fantasyland/fantasy-land (A bit heavy on jargon)

Note there is a python version of Ramda available on pypi and there’s a lot of FP tidbits inside JAX:

3. https://pypi.org/project/ramda/ (Worth making your own version if you want to learn, though)

4. For nested data, JAX tree_util is epic: https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/jax.tree_util.html and also their curry implementation is funny: https://github.com/google/jax/blob/4ac2bdc2b1d71ec0010412a32...

Anyway don’t put FP on a pedestal, main thing is to focus on the core principles of avoiding external mutation and making helper functions. Doesn’t always work because some languages like Rust don’t have legit support for currying (afaik in 2023 August), but in those cases you can hack it with builder methods to an extent.

Finally, if you want to understand the middle of the midwit meme, check out this wiki article and connect the free monoid to the Kleene star (0 or more copies of your pattern) and Kleene plus (1 or more copies of your pattern). Those are also in regex so it can help you remember the regex symbols. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_monoid?wprov=sfti1

The simplest example might be {0}^* in which case

0: “” // because we use *

It was never really my jam, but I used to follow the up-and-coming fantasy-land specs with great interest. It just seemed like a sharp dedicated community of folks trying to figure out better fp & algebraic stuff. I'm not sure who trailed off - in general I feel like there's much less connection in tech world, that the tech twitter and every other ultra-active tech channel has somewhat decayed. https://github.com/fantasyland/fantasy-land

Thanks for the links. I know I've seen @gcanti's name a thousand times already, but it's already quite murky to me what it was attached to. Something in this sphere.

Look at the implementations of Fantasy Land. List-in-JS might do the trick.

There are respective fantasy land and static land specs, with the law conformance checks.

While building a purely functional data structure library for personal fun and professional use, and while using other libraries, I found that the "Fantasy Land Specification" was mentioned from time to time. They use this hierarchy. Although I did read some about category theory (tried and failed to fully understand all the concepts), some of the terms used in the specification are unknown to me (like Chain, Apply). My question:

No: neither of those examples are "properties of futures and of lists as such." "Async/Await" in particular is a special case of monadic behavior of a concurrency monad. This specifically (infamously) came up in the evolution of the Prommise spec in ECMAScript, which in turn led to the development of the Fantasy Land Spec and various implementations of it.

If you're programming in TypeScript you can checkout the fantasy land spec. It provides a spec for all the algebraic structures used in the JS world. You can learn what they are. You'll want to find alternative resources to learn what they are how they work. Fantasy land is just a spec not a guide.

Javascript comes with this lovely little spec called Fantasy Land that defines certain type classes in Category Theory and how they interact.