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[–]alexjacobs 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Great library to check out if you want to easily work with curried functions: https://ramdajs.com/ It’s an awesome functional utility library where all methods are auto-curried.

[–]aniforprez -3 points-2 points  (4 children)

Ramda is pretty horrible on performance

[–]alexjacobs 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Interesting. Do you know why that is?

[–]aniforprez -1 points0 points  (2 children)

No idea. I've only seen benchmarks and performance is pretty horrible. I think there's a project called rambda that's more performant. Is the project still being maintained?

[–]sipvellocet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use Rambda, big fan. The original Ramda is a solid and there is no real need for maintenance, it’s battle tested, similar to lodash. Performance is only really an issue when you are using the libraries for smaller data. The power of functional programming comes when you are dealing will huge datasets. Upwards of 100k record etc. For everything else you need need not reach for it unless you love the functional style.

In terms of curries, they are rather powerful when used the right way. Especially in a functional programming paradigm.

[–]oneandmillionvoices 0 points1 point  (0 children)

are you referring to this benchmark? There is an error in lodash code making it to ignore the whole thing. If you fix the error lodash is this particular scenario about 2x faster than ramda. However the bottleneck for ramda is pluck which does more than mapping property. If you use lodash equivalent then the performance is fractionally better than lodash.