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

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

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/sr...

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.

currying is properly implemented in ramda, unlike lodash or underscore.

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"?

I would say creating a library that enables a "truer form" of functional programming is probably a pretty good enough feature on its own.

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.

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.

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

I really like Ramda too, when I saw this headline I was guessing it's bc more people are switching to Ramda.

Naw, usage wise, on npm Ramda is about 0.003% of Lodash and its daily downloads are even less.

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