Is es-toolkit the Lodash Killer?

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There’s a new utility library in town called es-toolkit, and it’s gunning for Lodash. 2-3x faster, 97% smaller, full TypeScript support, and using modern JavaScript APIs, es-toolkit’s just added a “Lodash compatibility layer” to ensure an identical API and 100% Lodash compatibility.

oRPC is the newest wrinkle in the Remote Procedural Call (RPC) world, and it promotes easy to build APIs that are end-to-end type-safe and adhere to OpenAPI standards.

Stack Overflow’s 15th developer survey results are in, and the learnings are... interesting. Some of the takeaways are expected (React’s still very popular, lots of devs have at least tried AI tools), but some seem willfully wrong (SO claims it’s a new resource for devs that need to solve AI-related issues, but 43% of respondents said they rarely or never visit the site anymore).

Either way, SO’s use has declined dramatically over the last few years due to the rise of AI, and we’ll see how much longer it can hang on as a vital part of the developer ecosystem.

Timestamps:

• 0:57 - es-toolkit update
• 7:46 - oRPC
• 17:13 - Stack Overflow Developer Survey
• 31:43 - Bolt hackathon winners
• 34:11 - Microsoft Edge Copilot Mode
• 38:46 - State of HTML survey
• 39:30 - What’s making us happy

Links:

• Paige - es-toolkit is coming for Lodash
• Jack - oRPC
• TJ - Stack Overflow 2025 survey results
• Bolt hackathon winners
• Microsoft Edge Copilot Mode
• State of HTML survey
• Paige - Monopoly Deal card game
• Jack - Gridfinity 3D printed grid storage system
• TJ - NY Times Games App

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