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Serious question, why does lodash.isNull exist?

• cratermoon 4y ago
  Because 'null' in Javascript isn't intuitive https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
  • Khelavaster 4y ago
    Exactly. This emphasized that '===' semantically means 'is'; '==' means 'equals'.
• db48x 4y ago
  So that you can refer to it by name, and do things like `_.remove(myArray, _.isNull)` to get an array with no null values.