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# Lodash is dead. Long live Radash.

**[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 4 min read · 327 upvotes · 27 comments

## Summary

Lodash was created in 2009 (as Underscore) and rose to power after a fork (as Lodash) around 2012-2013. The language was too unsafe, unmaintainable, and unwieldy. The addition of optional chaining and null coalescing alone makes a large handful of Lodash functions obsolete. The source code is maintained with understandability for newcomers as a top priority.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@sefo** · 3 upvotes

> I can't take seriously a library that omits all the trailing semicolons.

**@ghost** · 2 upvotes

> very, very cool... I have a few projects that use both Lodash and Bluebird, and could therefore benefit greatly from this. can't wait to play with this one.. :)

**@kkurko** · 2 upvotes

> I like some of the functions - already left a GitHub star, but will take a better look later

**@imakshath** · 1 upvotes

> Super cool

**@boiss\_bseau** · 1 upvotes

> Thank you ! Looks very nice !
>
> I tried to use the function 'try' but when we use it on an object method which use the `this` keyword, we need to bind the class to the method ...
>
> Looks like this : _.try(myObject.myMethod.bind(myObject))(...)
>
> Maybe that I'm on the wrong direction, a cleaner way exists ?
> @rayepps

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