Looks great... unless leftpad gets withdrawn from npm again

bit of context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11348798

Wow, I was about to comment on the first-worldishness problem statement wrt the OP title alone, but this...

I sort of missed that one. Not sure whether I should start weeping in the corner or burst out in laughter ( I've had my fair share of ruby gem hell during the past 8 years and this is exactly the reason I am sceptical about every minimal piece of JS code to be packaged into a standalone node module to begin with..)