> 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.
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.