• @ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    cries in left_pad

    It’s kind of astonishing how many people leaned on that library just to add fucking spaces to strings

    • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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      62 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.

      • @CXORA@aussie.zone
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        12 days ago

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

        • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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          121 hours ago

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