Its main purpose is deleting a property from an object, which is a pretty slow operation on modern JS engines.
Unless some code tests for the existence of a property, setting it to null is a better idea.
I'd suggest undefined over null if you want to effectively remove a property, since JSON.stringify won't serialize those properties... in an array, it will become null.
Though, I don't use delete much, I honestly don't worry about it much. In most contexts it's a bit of a premature optimization unless you are in a very low-level tool that will be used for example gaming, video or photo manipulation, there are probably better optimizations to make.
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Its main purpose is deleting a property from an object, which is a pretty slow operation on modern JS engines. Unless some code tests for the existence of a property, setting it to null is a better idea.
I'd suggest undefined over null if you want to effectively remove a property, since JSON.stringify won't serialize those properties... in an array, it will become null.
Though, I don't use delete much, I honestly don't worry about it much. In most contexts it's a bit of a premature optimization unless you are in a very low-level tool that will be used for example gaming, video or photo manipulation, there are probably better optimizations to make.