Babel was the largest package that was dependent on leftpad back in 2015 when the leftpad issue happened. The package bloat issue doesn't happen with Typescrip

Babel was the largest package that was dependent on leftpad back in 2015 when the leftpad issue happened. The package bloat issue doesn't happen with Typescript, for instance, which occupies a similar niche in the ecosystem (it's also a transpiler), or prettier.