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I see a lot of for loops.

Working on a project in which there are really nary such resources available, and I'm stuck with only 'for' ... guess what? I don't miss much of these functions; I just don't find myself reaching for them, wishing I had them.

Either a for loop, or a couple of lines of code, or gasp you end up writing a short custom utility function to do specifically what you want, which is generally better optimized anyhow.



Usually it is the other way round: you miss what you had somewhere else and learned to love. When you go back it hurts. Try a 800x600 monitor nowadays and you will cringe. For me after using functional constructs a lot I find myself wishing for them in languages where they are not available that easily.


Yes, we miss nice screens when we go back to crappy ones, agreed, but this is my point: I don't miss most of these lodashy functions when they're not there. Maybe a little bit.




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