I don't know the js world well at all, but it seems to me it's got to be the culture much more than the standard library. Look at C. Libc is tiny and relativel

I don't know the js world well at all, but it seems to me it's got to be the culture much more than the standard library. Look at C. Libc is tiny and relatively useless compared to most languages. Things are rarely ever added relative to decades ago. But there are many high quality self contained projects with very thin dependencies. Example: sqlite depends on libc and a few syscalls. It's an extremely solid piece of work despite those constraints. What's your excuse?