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by pierreyoda 2484 days ago
> How often do you need a whole collection of string manipulation functions? Never! It would just add to the size of dist folders everywhere, with no gain whatsoever.

I mean that's where proper tree shaking would void this argument. When you include lodash (or lodash-es more precisely) for instance only the used functions are in the final bundle with a modern bundler.