What Is An Applicative?

Bartłomiej Żyliński
5 min readDec 27, 2022

Applicative is just another concept similar in meaning and history to Functors and Monads. Besides explaining the theory behind it, I will implement a simple Applicative. I will also use Optional, to show what advantages Applicatives may give us.

The source code for this article is available in GitHub repository.

Why Should We Care About Applicatives?

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