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AI will replace programmers (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It should be in the standard library anyway. Why the hell is it not?!

I mean yeah, I can write my own function to do the same thing and probably I've done it at some point in some coding exercise as a beginner, but this seems like such a common thing to use, it should be in the standard library of any sane language.

[–] CXORA@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is, as padStart, which makes the number of packages using leftpad even more incomprehensible

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 7 hours ago

Brb changing a million libraries on npm to use padStart instead of left-pad and removing the dependency