This talk is my slightly expanded version of that statement, and should hopefully understand what "Free" is, what purpose it serves and where it came from.
Free is something I've wanted to understand for quite a while, but could never quite figure it out. I’d essentially given up on it until a friend of mine, known to be particularly fond of pithy statements, told me "Free is merely the defunctionalisation of Monad in its most uncomfortable configuration". He didn’t add "what’s the problem?" but it was clearly implied.
The odd thing though is that after playing with this for a bit, it turned out to be exactly what I needed to hear to get me unstuck.
This talk is my slightly expanded version of that statement, and should hopefully understand what "Free" is, what purpose it serves and where it came from.
Join me for a fun and possibly opinionated talk about the state of Scala and other JVM languages.
Join me in a talk empowering you to build Scala applications that not only excel internally but also deliver optimal experiences from an external perspective.
I would like to go over the most relevant tools and changes that can improve your developer experience.
In this talk, we will start with the basics, understanding what build caching is and why it can be a bit tricky to handle in real projects.