On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Mark Hahn <m...@hahnca.com> wrote: > > Why would you include an entire library to do a task that the native > runtime is capable of? > > Of course you wouldn't. My first sentence recommended underscore and my > second pointed out how it served the need. I should have made that more > clear. > > It was clear he wasn't using it and I thought he should know about the > option. Especially since it is the most popular module on NPM. And I > couldn't live without it. >
Ok... Popularity doesn't explain why it would be _better_ to include a third party library to accomplish the same task that the language is capable of accomplishing itself - especially when the third party library is really just providing an alias to the native API... https://github.com/documentcloud/underscore/blob/master/underscore.js#L644-651 https://github.com/documentcloud/underscore/blob/master/underscore.js#L319-321 Rick > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
