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When will JS engines ship with timezone data to not let a third party maintain it?

Ironically, it's possible every browser includes this already internally, but doesn't expose it to Javascript [0].

Packages still have their place, but the lack of a decent standard library will hurt us for decades to come (already is arguably).

[0] https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/intl/icu/sour...

This. People often have a beef with the very wild npm ecosystem with tons of libs of varying quality, abandonned projects, bloated libs, etc but mostly it comes down to the standard library being anemic.

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