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0 points_the_inflator1y ago0 comments

Clutter death that creeps in any language, as I see it. To this day, only a small subset of JS syntax is used; I cannot recall anyone besides me ever using method chaining like .map .filter, etc.

There is a reason why almost every good language is somewhat akin to C to this day, and maybe people started over to get rid of the noise.

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matwood1y ago

> I cannot recall anyone besides me ever using method chaining like .map .filter, etc.

Interesting. That's all anyone on my team ever used once it became available.

But, it highlights the point with Go. Working with Go for just a little while means I can easily read and work with nearly any Go project with a very short ramp up.

jessekv1y ago

Haha interesting. I actually like .map/.filter/.find/etc. in JS and comprehensions in Python. I find they communicate the intent of the programmer really clearly as compared to a for-loop.

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