A Swift library exploring pure declarative programming with algebraic structures, combinators, and functional patterns.
Basis is a Swift library dedicated to exploring pure declarative programming and mathematical reasoning. It provides foundational components for system interaction, control flow, and data manipulation, serving as an encyclopedia of functional programming techniques rather than a conventional utility library.
Swift developers interested in learning and applying advanced functional programming concepts like monads, functors, and lazy evaluation, particularly those coming from or curious about languages like Haskell or ML.
Developers choose Basis for its mathematical rigor and clear documentation that demystifies complex algebraic structures, offering practical Swift implementations of functional programming concepts not natively available in Swift's standard library.
Pure Declarative Programming in Swift, Among Other Things
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Implements algebraic structures like monads and functors for type-safe operations, providing practical Swift examples such as the liftA functions for Maybes, grounded in theory.
Serves as an encyclopedia of functional programming techniques with documentation aimed at demystifying complex concepts, as emphasized in the 'It Gets Better!' section for learning.
Supports infinite data structures like streams and stack-safe recursion via trampolines, enabling memory-efficient patterns such as the naturalNumbers example and noSmashFactorial function.
Offers an IO Monad to encapsulate real-world interactions in a functional style, demonstrated with the interact effect for handling terminal input and output.
Explicitly states it does not contain idiomatic Swift code, which can clash with standard Cocoa development practices and increase learning curve for teams.
Focuses on foundational components, excluding higher-level structures, meaning developers must build more from scratch compared to conventional utility libraries.
Requires adding as a submodule and framework dependency, a more complex setup process than modern package managers like Swift Package Manager, as noted in Getting Started.