Good digging. The 2012 banner is
> A drop-in replacement\* for Underscore.js
I'd consider this to be an admission of where the API came from.You are right though, my memory failed me. No mention of forking.. Shameless!
After some digging, it seems like the Lodash website stopped mentioning Underscore.js around 2015 sometime, but even before that, it never had "evidence of said inspiration" as claimed by you.
Here are the versions I looked at:
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120826202523/http://lodash.com...
- https://web.archive.org/web/20130502014523/http://lodash.com...
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140517192947/http://lodash.com...
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150513014815/https://lodash.co...
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160803063412/https://lodash.co...
- https://web.archive.org/web/20170830163720/https://lodash.co...
- https://web.archive.org/web/20180703043557/https://lodash.co...
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190803030353/https://lodash.co...
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200615092636/http://lodash.com...
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210314233141/https://lodash.co...