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The Problem With Reduce in React

I think we need to do away with map and filter and especially reduce. I have never in the wild seen someone use reduce correctly. The problem is that we act, it's like we act encourages a ternary over ifs. In JavaScript, unlike other programming languages, statements are not expressions. So, unless we get the do expression, which I always hated as an addition to the echoscript, but now I think is kind of needed for React,. It probably needs to happen now.

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