Comment by joshmanders
11 years ago
Uh, no Left Padding is NOT built-in in JavaScript. The proposal to add `String.prototype.padLeft()` was just added to ECMAScript 2016.
JavaScript had a very minimal standard library, it's pretty asinine of you to compare it to C or any other language with a pretty extensive standard library.
C didn't get a standard (or a standard library) until 1989. It had been around for 17 years at that point. Two years after its invention, JavaScript was standardized in 1997. That's almost twenty years ago.
I've never thought of C as being a particularly good example of "extensive standard library."
I wanted to say that it's built-in in pretty much every other language apart from JS
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.