John Gallagher - Networking with Monads HD

Networking with Monads * Discuss what makes a monad (bind / return) * Show how Optional and Result are monads * Discuss "Deferred" (Swift implementation of http://ocaml.janestreet.com/ocaml-core/108.00.02/doc/async_core/Deferred.html) * Briefly mention monad transformers * Demo simple chat client/server that uses all of these concepts (e.g., how "connect and handshake" is relatively simple with monadic error handling) http://2014.funswiftconf.com