Serious question, why does lodash.isNull exist?

[user3939382]

https://github.com/lodash/lodash/blob/master/isNull.js

[cratermoon]

Because 'null' in Javascript isn't intuitive https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

[Khelavaster → cratermoon]

Exactly. This emphasized that '===' semantically means 'is'; '==' means 'equals'.

[db48x]

So that you can refer to it by name, and do things like `_.remove(myArray, _.isNull)` to get an array with no null values.