Devs unknowingly use “malicious” modules snuck into official Python repository

Re:Devs unknowingly use “malicious” modules snuck into offic... by ubernostrum on Monday September 18, 2017 @06:19AM (#15274624)

JavaScript has things like left-pad because it doesn't have a standard library of modules for common tasks like other languages do, and because some of its built-in types don't have the same rich set of operations as other languages.

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Re:Devs unknowingly use “malicious” modules snuck into offic... by Babooster on Monday September 18, 2017 @09:10AM (#15275499)

http://www.haneycodes.net/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how...

is a nice article on the subject of left-pad. If you can't implement a left-pad in less than 5 minutes yourself, you don't know how to code.

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Re:Devs unknowingly use “malicious” modules snuck into offic... by Ajedi32 on Monday September 18, 2017 @09:34AM (#15275750)

Just because you _can_ spend 5 minutes re-inventing the wheel in every project you write, doesn't mean you _should_.

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