I don’t know. Maybe if it’s getting a lot of traction it’s beholden on you to look up what it is.

I don’t understand everything on the HN frontpage either.

I dunno about anyone else, but someone washing their Tesla fits my mental model of impotence perfectly.

Do the example functions (isObject, isNumber, differenceDeep, randomUUID, debounce), along with the name (“SuperUtilsPlus”), and sentences saying “utility library” and “JavaScript” really not give enough context to get an idea of what this library is for?

And so if Lodash is what they’re trying to replace, is that not enough info to infer what Lodash might be?

The pharma ad comparison seems more than a little hyperbolic to me.

To use your analogy, this is more of "Show HN: Cialis - A modern alternative to Viagra".

You either care about Viagra and read or move on.

the irksome bit was this: lodash's page, first sentence, says "A modern JavaScript utility library delivering modularity, performance & extras."

this github's readme says "alternative to lodash". other than being named "superutilsplus", someone who clicked on it would need to then go google for lodash to see it's another js utilities kit, to then figure out they don't care.

I stopped professional javascript development when i stopped having an office next to Ryan Dahl at Joyent, so, yeah i haven't cared for about a decade. Thanks for explaining about atoms, though, my esteemed chemists.

HN is not a feed of pharmaceutical ads. HN is a place where industry experts in many industries exchange projects and news in _their_ language. HN is going to be a difficult place to live if you are unwilling to google or chatgpt for things you don't understand. Most of us are here explicitly to discover things we've never seen before – there are other places on the web to have everything spelled out