[doteka]

So much this. I remember being so excited that Map and Set were added to the language, only to find that they were worse than useless for objects. At least Set can be handy in a pinch, but I have never seen an actual usecase for Map that isn’t solved better with plain old JS objects. Curious if anyone else has?

[upzylon]

There definitely are valid use cases for a Map, and even more now that we have WeakMaps (e.g. associating data DOM nodes). Or mapping functions to values, e.g. something like this:

  const returnCache = new Map<() => any, any>()

  const memoized = <T extends () => any>(f: T): ReturnType<T> => {
    if (returnCache.has(f)) return returnCache.get(f)
    const v = f()
    returnCache.set(f, v)
    return v
  }

[gildas]

> I have never seen an actual usecase for Map that isn’t solved better with plain old JS objects. Curious if anyone else has?

With a Map, you can easily and efficiently associate data with DOM nodes without changing them.