I have no particular love for using JS as a language to power everything from IoT devices to web servers, but it doesn't really matter how I feel about it. It's not going anywhere.
Why should the language provide that? What other languages provide an equivalent to that? left_pad is intended for formatting text within a terminal, not a website. There's no need for it within the context of a website, because HTML has tables, CSS and other elements for that.
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-pad.php
https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.1/String.html
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsstrin...
> left_pad is intended for formatting text within a terminal, not a website. There's no need for it within the context of a website
This is just not correct. It’s for padding a string with any character, for example adding leading zeroes to a number for display purposes. There are plenty of reasons to want to do that in a browser.
Moving javascript out of the browser and trying to use it as a one-size-fits-all replacement for everything from systems to application programming, and every language from C++ to Java, is the original sin. Stop complaining because Brendan Eich's toy scripting language isn't a good replacement for things it was never meant to be used for. A screwdriver isn't a good hammer, either.