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I've honestly never understood why someone at Google or Mozilla hasn't decided to write a JavaScript Standard Library.
I'm not opposed to NPM, because dumb shit like this happens everywhere. If such a package is used millions of times a day, perhaps it would make sense to standardise it and have it as part of the fucking browser or node runtime...
There's a js runtime called bun that is 90-something% feature equivalent to node and also has built in alternatives to many packages like express and bcrypt. I haven't used it myself so I can't speak to its quality but it's always nice to see a little competition
So is Deno! You can easily import
npm:
andnode:
packages and run typescript without transpiling. With Bun and Deno there's no reason to use Node tbh.node now supports stripping types, which is good enough for one-off TS snippet.
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