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not sure why currying doesn’t get as much love — it’s as easy as generators or memoization in practice

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yeah sadly not winning anyone over so far 😂

Currying without native language support is quite awkward
Also unnecessary runtime overhead

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before: 

function sum(a, b) {
  return a + b;
}

alert(sum(2, 3)); // 5
alert(sum(2, 5)); // 7

after:

let addTwo = curriedSum(2);
alert(addTwo(3)); // 5
alert(addTwo(5)); // 7

Maybe because it doesn't add any value??? It just makes code harder to read.

It's used in many libraries especially those that lean more towards functional. In React currying is used in router, Context API, Hooks, HOCs, and even rendering. I think a lot of people use it without knowing the concept. In my code, I could find a lot of currying here's an example from a Github service.