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[–] jonc211@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Agree it’s an issue, but in my builds most of the complexity in telling how things fit together is because of chains of several combinators.

It looks like the update is going to allow for much more complexity to be expressed in a smaller number of combinators, which should mitigate the issues somewhat.

As a software dev, the biggest thing for me in this update is that it makes combinators more like how I think of things in terms of programming paradigms. When I first came across combinators, I tried to treat them like logic gates. Eventually, I realised they’re a different thing entirely.