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Re:Bun 1.2 Is Released by spiffytech on Thursday January 23, 2025 @08:05AM (#42803585)
> during the past 10 years or so it has become fashionable to throw away everything the industry has learned in decades prior and start anew

This is a curious take to me. I've spent the last 10 years seeing people claim again and again that if JS just had common stuff built in like <other lang>, we wouldn't have all this library churn, node_modules bloat, and left-pad silliness. That the mistake was not including a standard library.

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Re:Bun 1.2 Is Released by notnullorvoid on Thursday January 23, 2025 @03:00PM (#42807473)
This is mostly a sentiment I see from people who used or heard of JS 10+ years ago and didn't bother to learn added JS language features and recent tooling.

Standard libs can be great, but they should really be reserved for baseline features, especially in a language like JS where all changes must be backward compatible. The standard JS has now is not at all what it was in the early 2010s, it's a very good set of baseline features.

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