Great article K!
One more use case I can think of is that it allows JavaScript API to grow and avoid variable naming collision. For example I can’t have a property called __proto__ in my object because old JS didn’t have Symbols. But now with symbols they can introduce new things like Symbol.Iterator without resorting to weird things like __iterator__ 😅.
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Great article K!
One more use case I can think of is that it allows JavaScript API to grow and avoid variable naming collision. For example I can’t have a property called
__proto__in my object because old JS didn’t have Symbols. But now with symbols they can introduce new things like Symbol.Iterator without resorting to weird things like__iterator__😅.