Stupidly Obscure Programming in a Troubled Time
Summary
A verbose, technically dense meditation on concurrency in functional programming, focusing on bringing applicative desugaring to Scala for-notation via a macro-based LiftFetchTuples. It compares Haskell's Haxl with Scala's Fetch for batching and parallelism, documents how to manually batch fetches, and outlines a macro approach to automatically lift nested map/flatMap constructs into an applicative operation. It also discusses implicit resolution, typeclass complexity, and ends with a critical, humorous tone.