Explanation

These articles explain the why behind Katharos - the concepts, design decisions, and trade-offs that shape how the library works. Read them when you want to deepen your understanding, not when you need to solve a specific task.

• Why Functional Programming in Python?
• Errors as Values: catch and Traceback Preservation
• Communicating Sequential Processes: Design and Rationale
• The Mathematics of Semigroups and Monoids
• Just Enough Category Theory to Understand Katharos
• The Mathematics of Functors
• The Mathematics of Applicatives
• The Mathematics of Monads