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Sven Slootweg mastodon (AP)

I will never understand people complaining about JS (or any other language, for that matter) on the grounds that it doesn't have some very specific thing "in the standard library".

That's what a package manager is for, friend. So that you don't need to ship everyone's kitchensink with the language runtime whether you need it or not.

Halfy! mastodon (AP)
JS in particular I feel bad just the right amount of things in the standard library. Maybe there are a couple of things I've even take out, but generally it's fine
Pippin friendica
@Halfy! @Sven Slootweg Hmm, do people conflate languages with their standard libraries even more these days than they used to? I'm old enough to remember alternative C libraries on the Atari ST - same language, different base library. I'm pretty sure I usually think of languages and their libs as fairly separate things.