The Haskell Unfolder Episode 16: monads and deriving via

https://well-typed.com/blog/2023/12/haskell-unfolder-episode-16-monads-and-deriving-via/

In this episode, we'll see how deriving-via can be used to capture rules that relate type classes to each other. As a specific example, we will discuss the definition of the Monad type class: ever since this definition was changed back in 2015 in the Applicative Monad Proposal, instantiating Monad to a new datatype requires quite a bit of boilerplate code. By making the relation between

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For more details on DerivingVia, check out the paper:

https://ryanglscott.github.io/papers/deriving-via.pdf

Especially Section 4 which lists many use cases including the superclasses demonstrated in the video.