• boonhet@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    It should be in the standard library anyway. Why the hell is it not?!

    I mean yeah, I can write my own function to do the same thing and probably I’ve done it at some point in some coding exercise as a beginner, but this seems like such a common thing to use, it should be in the standard library of any sane language.

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      1 day ago

      It is, as padStart, which makes the number of packages using leftpad even more incomprehensible

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        11 hours ago

        Brb changing a million libraries on npm to use padStart instead of left-pad and removing the dependency