The JavaScript community continues to follow the trend of syntactical additions being requested, added, praised, and then criticized because of unreadability and mental overhead. If you want to use reduce because it fits your context and provides clarity, then use it. The problem is that too many people misunderstand why the convention was initially introduced — not to provide a "swiss-army knife" replacement for for loops, but to alleviate complexity and provide more purity when writing functional code.
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The JavaScript community continues to follow the trend of syntactical additions being requested, added, praised, and then criticized because of unreadability and mental overhead. If you want to use
reducebecause it fits your context and provides clarity, then use it. The problem is that too many people misunderstand why the convention was initially introduced — not to provide a "swiss-army knife" replacement forforloops, but to alleviate complexity and provide more purity when writing functional code.