html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/3258#issuecomment-525427300,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/3258,525427300,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDUyNTQyNzMwMA==,1217238,2019-08-27T18:30:34Z,2019-08-27T18:30:34Z,MEMBER,"> apply_ufunc is extremely powerful, and when you need to cope with all possible shape transformations, I suspect its verbosity is quite necessary.
> It's just that, when all you need to do is apply an elementwise, embarassingly parallel function (80% of the times in my real life experience), apply_ufunc is overkill.

Yes, 100% agreed! There is a real need for a simpler version of `apply_ufunc`.

> The thing I have against the name map_blocks is that backends other than dask have no notion of blocks...

I think the functionality in this PR is fundamentally dask specific. We shouldn't make a habit of adding backend specific features, but it makes sense in limited cases.","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,484752930
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/3258#issuecomment-525384446,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/3258,525384446,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDUyNTM4NDQ0Ng==,1217238,2019-08-27T16:40:32Z,2019-08-27T16:40:32Z,MEMBER,"> * could we call it just ""map""? It makes sense as this thing would be very useful for non-dask based arrays too. Working routinely with scipy (chiefly with scipy.stats transforms), I tire a lot of writing very verbose `xarray.apply_ufunc` calls.

I agree that `apply_ufunc` is overly verbose. See https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1074 and https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1618 (and issues linked therein) for discussion about alternative APIs.

I still think this particular set of functionality should be called `map_blocks`, because it works by applying functions over each block, very similar to dask's `map_blocks`.","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,484752930