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Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

175 points · 283 comments · vinhnx

el_oni · 1789395360 · focus · HN ↗
Ive only used reduce at work half a dozen times and it does raise an eyebrow each time.
But for unioning a bunch of spark dataframes together i think
```
    df = reduce(DataFrame.union, list_of_dfs) 
```
is much nicer than
```
    df, *rest = list_of_dfs

    for other in rest:
        df = df.union(other)
```
People just get a bit funny, especially now you have to import it from functools
1. tehnub · 1789618770 · focus · HN ↗
  Came here to comment this. I work on a team of functional-adverse devs, but they all happily use this one.

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