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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.

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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.

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