[hombre_fatal]

fwiw they actually did mark their package as deprecated on NPM which means that all installations will see a warning that urges the user to consider other software.

It's kind of like if you were to maintain your own promise implementation, then the Promise is added to stdlib. You wouldn't say that your project is "done", you'd want to encourage your users to use the native promise.

Request was created back when all we had was the stdlib `http` module.

[seniorsassycat]

> Request was created back when all we had was the stdlib `http` module.

What stdlib module supersedes `http`? Browsers have `fetch` and there's `node-fetch` and `axios` modules, but it's sad that core node hasn't updated the core http module.

[sli]

Node has an http2 module as well, but it's still pretty low level. I don't think there's anything wrong with the stdlib module being lower level than the third-party ones.

[Ididntdothis]

Makes sense.