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This article seems to be largely fluff. Here's a link to the proposal with the list of methods being added: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-set-methods?tab=readme-ov-f...

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It seems to be written by someone with an incomplete understanding of the analogies they're using:

    A difference is like performing a LEFT JOIN.

Has anything changed recently? The proposal has been in stage 3 since November 2022 [1]

[1] https://github.com/tc39/notes/blob/HEAD/meetings/2022-11/nov...

I believe that they're just waiting for Firefox to ship it, at which point it will be upgraded to Stage 4 and included in ES2024.

Having read the article... it doesn't? It gives a nicely elaborate overview of the original Set and the new functions, in a way that lets folks who've never use sets (except to hide "filter for uniqueness" functionality) know that it might actually be useful to them.

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