Actually this is an opportunity for left-pad.io. Previously they had to maintain custom code, but now they can interface through to the kernel which is much faster and allows them to scale.

Many people are on older kernels and might not be able to upgrade, or for convenience or other reasons simply prefer to use an api for their critical business logic.

They can compile a unikernel with this single function, even.

Another unicorn dying.

It must be a bubble.

Let's wait for HN resident economists to tell us about it.

The consensus estimates on left-pad.io’s [LPAD, -0.57%] fiscal 2016 earnings per share and revenue have come down sharply compared to estimates, with ongoing softness within the padding family of functions pushing many analysts to the low end of their guidance.

It was only natural. I propose a POSIX extension with a new signal type: SIGLPAD. You know, for on demand left-padding by the user. Because user choice is important