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Why I don't chain everything in JavaScript anymore (allthingssmitty.com)
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[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Only tangentially related, but I dislike that filter and map are eager in JS. Meaning if you chain them, you allocate N-1 arrays that are being discarded right away. C#, Java and Rust have the right approach.

[–] Fisherswamp@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are they eager even with generators?

[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You made me go down the rabbit hole with that question. TIL the very same methods exist on Iterator's prototype. They aren't eager, no.

You can get an iterator out of an array with Array.prototype[Symbol.iterator]() and you can collect an iterator into an array with Iterator.prototype.toArray().

[–] LPThinker@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

One reason you may not have known this is that these (iterator methods, not the Iterator itself) are newish additions to Javascript and only available in all the big browsers for just over 1 year.