GoKawiilAnecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
In short: from my experience, people like map and filter , but not reduce .
I use functions like map and filter all the time. When I put that code up for review, my peers rarely complain. I get plenty of feedback about other decisions, but not about my use of map and filter .
I cannot say the same for reduce . Often, when I’ve submitted a patch with reduce inside, I get a comment like, “this part is hard to read.” And I see reduce way less than map , filter , some , and so on.
Anecdotally, I have come to believe that programmers don’t like reduce as much.
I don’t know why, but I have a few theories:
reduce is harder to read.
is harder to read. reduce is less familiar.
is less familiar. reduce can have worse performance compared to other options.
can have worse performance compared to other options. reduce is less elegant in languages I use, like JavaScript, Python, and Swift. In my blissful stint as a Clojure developer, I did not get this feedback.
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