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both eclipsed by ramda.js >> http://functionaltalks.org/2013/05/27/brian-lonsdorf-hey-underscore-youre-doing-it-wrong/ http://functionaltalks.org/2013/05/27/bri

both eclipsed by ramda.js >> http://functionaltalks.org/2013/05/27/brian-lonsdorf-hey-underscore-youre-doing-it-wrong/ http://functionaltalks.org/2013/05/27/brian-lonsdorf-hey-und...

tracker1 11y ago
I really like Ramda myself as well... Though there are a few bits that I prefer how lodash/underscore work... in terms of methods that will work against an object or an array. In Ramda it's more expressly separated, and not always a good ratio. I very much appreciate being able to use Ramda for composition of methods, which can mean much more concise code[1]. [1] https://github.com/tracker1/azure-config-util/blob/master/src/get-config/parse-raw.js https://github.com/tracker1/azure-config-util/blob/master/sr...
kin 11y ago
hadn't heard of ramda.js until this comment. thanks! love what it provides w/o forcing anything on you.
- grandalf 11y ago
  I really like Ramda too, when I saw this headline I was guessing it's bc more people are switching to Ramda.
  - jdd 11y ago
    Naw, usage wise, on npm Ramda is about 0.003% of Lodash and its daily downloads are even less.
chamakits 11y ago
Is it going really? If so in what way? At least mind share wise I've heard of lodash/underscore much more often than ramda. Only recently has it come up with some level of frequency.
- arcosdev 11y ago
  currying is properly implemented in ramda, unlike lodash or underscore.
  - chamakits 11y ago
    Currying is great and all, but that in itself isn't a end all be all feature from which you could say that it is enough to eclipse lodash/underscore. Is there anything else about it to that makes it really "eclipse" them or is it more like "ramda is also nice, especially because it has Currying"?
    - arcosdev 11y ago
      I would say creating a library that enables a "truer form" of functional programming is probably a pretty good enough feature on its own.
      - ufo 11y ago
        My experience with currying in Javascript is that passing the wrong number of arguments to a function leads to errors that are tricky to debug and ugly stack traces. In ML-family functional languages this isn't as much of a problem because of the static type checking.
  - deleted 11y ago
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jdd 11y ago
For those that dig a more fp-style (auto-curried, iteratee first methods) and are used to lodash there's lodash-fp — https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash-fp https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash-fp
smrtinsert 11y ago
I didn't know lukas haas coded js. More seriously I've probably never seen such a clear explanation and demo of why currying is so awesome.

both eclipsed by ramda.js >> http://functionaltalks.org/2013/05/27/brian-lonsdorf-hey-underscore-youre-doing-it-wrong/ http://functionaltalks.org/2013/05/27/brian-lonsdorf-hey-und...

tracker1 11y ago

I really like Ramda myself as well... Though there are a few bits that I prefer how lodash/underscore work... in terms of methods that will work against an object or an array. In Ramda it's more expressly separated, and not always a good ratio. I very much appreciate being able to use Ramda for composition of methods, which can mean much more concise code[1]. [1] https://github.com/tracker1/azure-config-util/blob/master/src/get-config/parse-raw.js https://github.com/tracker1/azure-config-util/blob/master/sr...

kin 11y ago

hadn't heard of ramda.js until this comment. thanks! love what it provides w/o forcing anything on you.

grandalf 11y ago
I really like Ramda too, when I saw this headline I was guessing it's bc more people are switching to Ramda.
- jdd 11y ago
  Naw, usage wise, on npm Ramda is about 0.003% of Lodash and its daily downloads are even less.

chamakits 11y ago

Is it going really? If so in what way? At least mind share wise I've heard of lodash/underscore much more often than ramda. Only recently has it come up with some level of frequency.

arcosdev 11y ago
currying is properly implemented in ramda, unlike lodash or underscore.
- chamakits 11y ago
  Currying is great and all, but that in itself isn't a end all be all feature from which you could say that it is enough to eclipse lodash/underscore. Is there anything else about it to that makes it really "eclipse" them or is it more like "ramda is also nice, especially because it has Currying"?
  - arcosdev 11y ago
    I would say creating a library that enables a "truer form" of functional programming is probably a pretty good enough feature on its own.
    - ufo 11y ago
      My experience with currying in Javascript is that passing the wrong number of arguments to a function leads to errors that are tricky to debug and ugly stack traces. In ML-family functional languages this isn't as much of a problem because of the static type checking.
- deleted 11y ago
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jdd 11y ago

For those that dig a more fp-style (auto-curried, iteratee first methods) and are used to lodash there's lodash-fp — https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash-fp https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash-fp

smrtinsert 11y ago

I didn't know lukas haas coded js. More seriously I've probably never seen such a clear explanation and demo of why currying is so awesome.