Rethinking JavaScript Object Enumeration

In JavaScript, enumeration across regular (non-Array) Objects is often more painful than it should be. Arrays are merrily dispatched through for and while loops using all manner of crazy, fun techniques; Objects are forever at the mercy of the pedestrian, one directional for-in loop, without which we can’t even learn the names and length of its own property set. Arrays have access to a plethora of elegant higher order functions (forEach, map, filter etc.); Objects don’t. Until now, that is.