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Deno has a standard library that wants to be 'batteries included' so you don't have nonsense like a third party package for left padding a string (deno supports string padStart natively for this for example).

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Sorry but padStart/padEnd are part of EcmaScript 2019 (or near that year). Deno did not implement it. (AFAIK)

Both are implemented in deno per MDN’s compatibility table.

Deno does not have its own javascript implementation, it uses the V8 javascript engine, and V8 happens to implement padStart and padEnd.

V8 was originally created as the javascript engine for Chrome, but it is used in many products now, including Node.js and Deno: https://v8.dev/

That’s true for padding. Deno is still doing a lot to standardize on the web platform APIs to be part of the base runtime available and that’s work they’re doing on their own and not for free as part of v8. This is similar to what we do at Cloudflare and I think there’s similar efforts within Node in 17 for what it’s worth.

Everything supports padStart natively, for almost half a decade by now.

I'm referring to the left-pad package on npm that infamously ignited a huge controversy years ago and started some of the cracks in the entire ecosystem that are growing larger and larger today. For more context: https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-...

Point is, Deno is doing a lot to bring feature parity with expected Web APIs (which are not part of JavaScript the language yet), and they are building a single export standard library, but padStart is not part of their (direct) actions.

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