Reading Time: 5 minutes 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at Functor type class in Cats. The idea of Functor is “something that can be mapped over”, we’ll see what is actually mapped and how. In functional programming, Functors come into play when we have types or values wrapped inside contexts or containers. We don’t have to know any of the implementation details of those contexts Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes If you’re new to the concept of type classes I suggest you read my other article explaining them. The Cats library makes extensive use of type classes and a basic understanding is a prerequisite for this article. In previous articles, we talked about Semigroups and Monoids, which are abstractions that let us combine values of the same type together. In this post, we’ll take a look at Functors, which Continue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes I have been working on Scala for around 2.5 years now, but still, feel that I have yet to explore a lot in this language. There are still a lot of topics unexplored. One such topic is Monads. I have heard and read about it a lot of times but never actually got a chance to explore it. Recently I came across the term and Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes In functional programming, we have various pillars like Functors, Monads, Applicative and more. Today we will try to explore one of these pillars called Functors. First let’s explore function composition: Function Composition: In this diagram, we have 3 sets called A, B, and C. Set A contains an element called x. Suppose, we need to convert our Set A elements into Set C. But we have no Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes While programming in Scala we often come across a term called Functor. A functor is an extremely simple but powerful concept. In this blog, let us discuss that in more detail. Theoretically functor is a type of mapping between categories. Given two categories A and B, a functor F maps the objects or entities of A to objects or entities of B. We can simply call Continue Reading
