Comment by vel0city
17 hours ago
That's still quite a ways away from 500M+ downloads a month, more like ~4M downloads a month.
Still a huge number of downloads, don't get me wrong!
17 hours ago
That's still quite a ways away from 500M+ downloads a month, more like ~4M downloads a month.
Still a huge number of downloads, don't get me wrong!
You're right, I was reading the stats for "is-number" and mixing them up for "is-even":
https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-number
170M downloads / week.
Same author, similar vintage. Arguably a necessary package, but that just further indicates how messed up javascript was.
So nuts.
> Arguably a necessary package
Arguably a somewhat important part of a standard library!
A large part of the problems of Javascript are corollaries of lacking of a good standard library, and the relatively long time it took and is still taking to fix that.
It wasn't really until ES2015 that a better standard library really started to take shape, and, thanks to IE11, it was a very long time before that didn't need poly-filling.
In a sane world, you'd just parse whatever you're after and then check for NaN or null.
You can't do that. Pop open your favourite javascript runtime and type: