Spice up your JavaScript with currying (opens in new tab)

Am I the only person that absolutely hates this style of programming? Explicitly passing arguments makes it much clearer to the reader what that function does without having to go investigate the arguments it's expecting. Similarly, while with map, filter, reduce, we're familiar with the arguments they'll invoke our fn with, in other cases additional readability is lost by not being able to name the arguments.

I would go further and argue that my favorite functions actually expect objects with keys as parameters, so then it becomes clear what key the function is expecting, and what value I'm passing from my business logic that I'd like to represent that value.

    http({
      method: 'post',
      url: company.url.complaints
    })

I can tell by reading this code that I'm passing in a url and an http method without knowing anything about the function's arguments or positions, and I have explicitly mapped what value from my business logic I would like associated with a specific argument key.

JS and Python, among others, have destructuring/kwargs to help this style of programming be less verbose and equally self descriptive.

The other thing I really dislike about currying and positional arguments is that it's very hard to change the function interface. Using keyed arguments makes it trivial to add additional functionality to functions later without breaking any existing code.

I just really can't get past the opinion that people are deluding themselves into taking certain aspects of functional programming and not realizing exactly how inconvenient it becomes to understand what's happening without inspecting the interface of every function.