Going deeper down the category theory rabbit hole, we explore one of the most common and useful abstractions in the functional programming world. You're likely already familiar with Functors but just didn't know it yet.

Episode 16 patrons:
Chris Krycho
Tyler Harper
George Webster

Show Notes:

Functor
    map :: (a -> b) -> f a -> f b
Bifunctor
    bimap :: (a -> b) -> (c -> d) -> f a c -> f b d
Profunctor
    dimap :: (a -> b) -> (c -> d) -> f b c -> f a d

Phil Freeman's talk on Profunctors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJtGECfksds

16: Functors

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