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		po1nter on March 23, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program... Everyone keeps mentioning the lack of a standard library for JavaScript as an excuse for this shit show. IMO this is just a futile attempt to mask incompetence.

plugnburn on March 24, 2016 [–]

This.

Any modern standrards-compliant implementation of JS (following ES5 and especially ES6/ES2015 standard) already has everything that a sane programmer would ever need.

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