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Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" (evanhahn.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] setsubyou@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don’t think it’s really less elegant in Python or Swift. Especially not in Swift where you can write it very concisely in some cases, like numbers.reduce(0, +). Admittedly Python is a bit more verbose.

But maybe Python and Swift programmers are not used to it in the same way as Clojure programmers are.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

also python has built-ins for sum, min, max, and math.prod - which account for a lot of use cases of reduce in a more readable way.

But if you're really crunching numbers, it's just better to go with something like numpy, pandas, polars, ...