Oh, for sure I still love monads. I miss Haskell's do syntax in every other language. I think it's a great design pattern that starts popping up constantly once you know where to look. My objection is being forced to use monads due to the language's lazy by default semantics. You get this problem with haskell where the IO monad eventually just pollutes a huge chunk of your code because you can't safely sequence side effects without it. Sometimes I just wanted an escape hatch that would let me do side effects that I knew to be safe/harmless. Haskell has unsafePerformIO but it truly is unsafe because you can't guarantee the execution order of your side effects, which makes it useless as an escape hatch for a lot of purposes.
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