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Re:Highland.js by jamesrom on Thursday April 16, 2015 @07:35PM (#9391394)
You notice that all the libraries that do this (underscore, jQuery, Lodash, et al.) offer features that are almost language features. Things so useful but generic that they could almost be integrated into the language syntax.

In this case, there's also the problem that 'Stream' is already used by node.

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Re:Highland.js by hamburglar on Thursday April 16, 2015 @08:55PM (#9391705)
> In this case, there's also the problem that 'Stream' is already used by node.

Haha, well, your grandparent would like you to know that's no reason to avoid a particular name. Module system! ;)

  > var BoringStream = require('stream');
  > var Stream = require('highland');
Or if we like special chars, we could get really cute:

  > var $tream = require('highland');
It's like Stream, but, you know, blingier.
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