dinsdag 13 augustus 2019

I don't understand why people prefer arrow-functions in Javascript in the following context:

const name = () => stuff();

vs

function name() {
  stuff();
}

... they are ideal for callbacks and map-operations, but when I want to declare a function, I want to see that keyword.

Ah, I think I got myself an answer: the const variant does not allow re-definition of the function, while the function variant does. I still don't think the benefit that brings outweighs the ugliness of it. Can I have a new keyword like fn or something to solve this?