Discussion on: I Use For Loops Almost Always In Javascript

You hit the nail on the head here, Ryan. I have no idea where the functional mindset originated from. I know quite a few JS "thought leaders" are strong advocates for the functional approach and I honestly think React shares a lot of the blame for this in recent years.

Because of design choices and mistakes in React itself lending itself to things like hooks being created, their anti-classes/oop approach has resulted in an ecosystem of developers who don't question the approach and blindly assume that Facebook is the be-all and end-all of JS and follows them into the mouth of the volcano.

Just based on my experiences (and sounds like yours as well) I have seen what happens when "clever coders" think they are writing "clever code" and it always almost results in the code being rewritten eventually because it's trying to be too smart and nobody can work out what it is doing.

I have seen a lot of people advocating for using map as a means of looping over items in arrays where a for loop would be more appropriate. And in the case of reduce especially, I have seen some pretty crazy stuff.

And truth to be told, I have fallen into some traps with reduce before forgetting the first argument in the initial value or the previous value, because I am used to how methods like forEach return the value in the iteration first.