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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It makes you wonder why anyone uses them though, since so many of them do things that are trivial in modern JavaScript.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 months ago

And anyone who has been around for a while should remember when left-pad broke node.js. Including unnecessary dependencies, instead of writing trivial code is just bad practice.