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Comment by buckbova

11 years ago

Nearly everyone has had it drilled into them the "Don't reinvent the wheel." nonsense for better or worse.

I use lodash in almost every javascript project I start, big or small because it makes my life easier.

I'd rather use the lodash isArray than roll my own.

https://lodash.com/docs#isArray

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jessaustin  11 years ago

Do you support IE 8? If not, why not use the one provided by the language, Array.isArray()?

  • cpeterso  11 years ago

    The latest version of lodash (4.0.0) doesn't support IE 8, so you would need to polyfill isArray() yourself or use a pre-modern lodash version.

    • jessaustin  11 years ago

      Yeah I agree that polyfilling makes more sense than depending on lodash just to get isArray(). I wonder if we'll start seeing the sorts of "you don't need..." rants about lodash that we've seen about jquery for some time now?