Lodash is a great library. It's something I wind up using a little bit of on almost every project I work on.

However, as JavaScript has become better and better, I use Lodash less and less. Every time I catch myself using it, I make sure to go see if there's a built-in for what I'm trying to do. I also find myself commenting on PRs with links to "you don't need Lodash for this" quite often.

I still hope this isn't a sign they are stepping away from the project.

Very much agreed. The amount of mileage we get from using Spread (literally the ...) alone has been amazing. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... Iteration helpers is shipping soon, that'll be a huge help (async iteration helpers will be delayed for a while). https://github.com/tc39/proposal-iterator-helpers .

In the olden days, I feel like the codebases I worked on needed to use .apply() multiple times a week, to figure out some creative way of invoking functions. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... That's all gone now; I'd take even odds that 50% of my team knows .call and .apply.

Chrome 117 is shipping Object.groupBy() and that's gonna be a huge help in eliminating a lot of the last places we end up using lodash. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...