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InfluxDB
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proposal-record-tuple
ECMAScript proposal for the Record and Tuple value types. | Stage 2: it will change!
The standard library is a tough one. There is a proposal for built-in modules but it is very early days and miles away from what is needed. Clojure ships with functions that make the likes of Lodash and Ramda redundant. I think for a dynamic language an extensive library of functions for manipulating collections is essential. It is a real thing that once dynamic language codebases grow too big, they become a challenge to maintain. Therefore having functions that do a lot of common tasks for you mitigates that issue. Paired with immutability, lots of code just becomes data passing through pipelines, giving less surface area for bugs and making everything more concise and declarative.
Finally reactivity. Clojure has agents which provide reactivity out of the box. You guessed it, we have a proposal for Observables but there are some good implementations in RxJS and Effector. I think this is a gaping hole in the JS ecosystem that isn't talked about enough and as such the individual UI libraries make their own reactive primitives that aren't interoperable and tie you into their world. Observables on their own aren't very useful but they at least provide a primitive that can be shared and passed around.
The only conditional expressions Javascript have are the ternary and boolean operators. So generally you're stuck with if statements and switch statements. Feeding back into declarative immutability as a goal, statements breed variables which breed state which leads to bugs. There is a proposal for pattern matching which would give us really powerful conditional expressions but it's a long way off. Seb Markbage (React maintainer) is a champion which I think is really telling. JSX encourages an expression based style but as we've seen the support for conditional expressions is weak. So you have React developers abusing `&&` and ternaries in their components. A good conditional expression primitive would simplify a huge number of React components very quickly.
The immutability is coming (though far off) with the record and tuple proposal.