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by halfmatthalfcat 1487 days ago
I rarely, if ever, have to reach for anything outside of the standard library for computation/algorithms. ES6 added most, if not all, the building blocks to build 99% of the computation you'll ever need. What's missing that you'd deem as worthless?
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> ES6 added most, if not all, the building blocks to build 99% of the computation you'll ever need. What's missing that you'd deem as worthless?

Not the same person, but date/time manipulation is one area I've encountered that's incredibly frustrating (especially when timezones are involved) without libraries like moment. Cross-browser functionality only compounds the issues.

Ah yes, I'd agree with that. To be fair though as well, many languages have struggled there; re: Java/Joda/Java 8's java.time