Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by raverbashing 3747 days ago
I wanted to say that it's built-in in pretty much every other language apart from JS
1 comments

But alas, here we are, talking about the JavaScript language and it's ecosystem.

It's easy to say "I don't see why there's a need for an 11 line module to pad left on a string" when your language of choice has a robust standard library with such abilities built in.