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Re:Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority by RL_Quine on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @01:55PM (#22311591)
I'm very aware of bcoin.

https://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/bcoin

Many steps of indirection away we find things like this include.

https://github.com/juliangruber/isarray/blob/master/index.js

    module.exports = Array.isArray || function (arr) {
      return toString.call(arr) == '[object Array]';
    };
Javascript is an absolute joke of a language.
Re:Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority by Ajedi32 on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @04:39PM (#22313084)
I don't really see the problem. On any remotely modern version of Node that's just a noop. On ancient versions of Node its a very useful polyfill.
Re:Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority by judge2020 on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @02:06PM (#22311699)
Re:Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority by chirss on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @02:16PM (#22311783)
For real, it can't even work with regular expressions decently.