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I, as a JS dev of 10+ years, wouldn't consider this "modern". I didn't see

- for in loop - for of loop

as a couple examples, and those have been around for at least a few years now. There's probably more missing too. To what the above person said. The usage of "modern" or "latest" or similar is going to fall behind and make for bad searching.

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> - for in loop - for of loop

It's 2020 and you still use loops? ;-)

source: https://github.com/buildo/eslint-plugin-no-loops

for/of is an iterator. It consumes the Symbol.iterator interface and is totally different from the for(i++) statement.

That eslint rule is a good example of a cargo cult. The second link in its rationalization argues for using underscore over touching a dangerous loop yourself.

Disallowing for..of iterators is the reason I cannot use or recommend the Airbnb lint preset. A very nice example of an anno 2014-2017 cargo cult that clearly hasn't held up. https://github.com/airbnb/javascript/issues/1271

Don't worry, there's plenty of 2020 cargo culting to replace it.

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