> Is there some other way of programming I don't know about? Unfortunately - yes, there is. There is a school of developers who choose to pull in a third-party

> Is there some other way of programming I don't know about? Unfortunately - yes, there is. There is a school of developers who choose to pull in a third-party library even for left-padding a string: http://www.haneycodes.net/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how-to-program/ http://www.haneycodes.net/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how...