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Do people still use
this
for functions? I've been in typescript for years, its all arrow functions and very few classes in our codebase. There are almost nothis
at all. Is it still comnon in js?this
is very handy when you want to carry over some shared context. Justin Fagnani describedthis
as an implicit first argument, which is a model that helped me understand how to use it better.Cool. As mentioned, I have been in a different tech for a while now, and this article is from 2011, so I was interested if people do still use it