https://github.com/duskmoon314/meowth

A library which provides abstractions for functional programming in Rust. Inspired by Scala library cats.
https://github.com/duskmoon314/meowth

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A library which provides abstractions for functional programming in Rust. Inspired by Scala library cats.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/duskmoon314/meowth
• Owner: duskmoon314
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2023-02-04T09:45:15.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-12-15T17:24:53.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-09-25T19:01:07.415Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: category-theory, functional-programming, rust
• Language: Rust
• Homepage:
• Size: 67.4 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: LICENSE-APACHE

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# Meowth

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`Meowth` is a library that provides abstractions for functional programming in Rust. Inspired by Scala library [cats](https://github.com/typelevel/cats). The name `Meowth` is a reference to the Pokemon character [Meowth]() as it is a cat-like Pokemon and the name `cats` has been taken.

## Introduction

### Reference

- [Functional Programming (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming)

- [Category Theory (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_theory)

- [Category Theory (nLab)](https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/category+theory)

- [Bartosz Milewski's _Category Theory for Programmers_](https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/)

  - [_Category Theory for Programmers_ (PDF)](https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf)

- [Scala library `cats`](https://typelevel.org/cats/index.html)

## License

Licensed under either of

- Apache License, Version 2.0 ([LICENSE-APACHE](https://github.com/duskmoon314/meowth/blob/main/LICENSE-APACHE) or

  )

- MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](https://github.com/duskmoon314/meowth/blob/main/LICENSE-MIT) or )

at your option.

### Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any Contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

## Disclaimer

This is currently a toy project as I learn FP. It may not be production ready. Use at your own risk.

If you are familiar with FP and/or category theory, please feel free to contribute. I would love to learn from you.