With the new static based functions. I was wondering if there were alternatives to the groupBy name. Object.groupBy and Map.groupBy sounds a little like it operates on Object or Map as opposed to building them.

Background

The majority of static Object methods operate on an object argument:

• getOwnPropertyDescriptor
• getOwnPropertyDescriptors
• getOwnPropertyNames
• getOwnPropertySymbols
• hasOwn
• preventExtensions
• seal
• assign
• defineProperties
• defineProperty
• freeze
• getPrototypeOf
• setPrototypeOf
• isExtensible
• isFrozen
• isSealed
• keys
• entries
• values

The static Object methods that create an object, Object.create and Object.fromEntries, are in the minority but use words that strongly convey that a new value is being created.

Suggestions

Some alternatives we came up with at Bloomberg:

• Object.byGrouping
• Object.fromGrouping
• Object.groupFrom

Thoughts?