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[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident

For the uninformed. It still somehow both boggles my mind and makes 100% sense that people didn't just write this function when they needed something to pad strings.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Probably got put into a popular example and then everyone uses it because "that's how."

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[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Huh... You know what that makes more sense than anything else I've come up with. I always just assumed it was lazy devs.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Something something Unix Philosophy. Write small programs that do one thing and do it well and then re-use that well tested code as often as you can rather than poorly re-implementing it over and over?

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