>We also live in a world where a package written by someone learning to code ended up critically underpinning the entire ecosystem and is downloaded 500 million times a month
whoa what? which one is that?
whoa what? which one is that?
https://github.com/i-voted-for-trump/is-even
From that page:
> I created this in 2014, when I was learning how to program.
I've nothing against Jon Schlinkert, it's not his fault the way we build software is more than messed up, where our build systems are so brittle that, "Throw out the universe and rebuild it from scratch" became not just acceptable, but the main way to get build systems to work reliably.
Still a huge number of downloads, don't get me wrong!
https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-number
170M downloads / week.
Same author, similar vintage. Arguably a necessary package, but that just further indicates how messed up javascript was.
> Arguably a necessary package
Arguably a somewhat important part of a standard library!
It wasn't really until ES2015 that a better standard library really started to take shape, and, thanks to IE11, it was a very long time before that didn't need poly-filling.
In a sane world, you'd just parse whatever you're after and then check for NaN or null.
You can't do that. Pop open your favourite javascript runtime and type:
Number.parseInt("123Garbage")