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This makes me ๐Ÿ˜ญ

UPDATE: Thanks @[email protected] for this update: The issue has now been commented on and was closed by the maintainer, where they explained why those blocks would be nonsense. But it appears the OP wants to still talk with maintainer privately about it.

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[โ€“] flumph 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The npm package has about 4000 weekly downloads. I don't know what that means in terms of popularity.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Less than left-pad. JavaScript devs are wild.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I know it probably predates String.prototype.padStart(), but it boggles my mind that people aren't just using the standard one.