I agree that dependency hell is a problem, but I don't agree that reinventing the wheel is better. Including things a lot of developers will need in the languag

I agree that dependency hell is a problem, but I don't agree that reinventing the wheel is better. Including things a lot of developers will need in the language is probably the best way to approach things like left_pad, at least given these three options (reinvent, third-party, language inclusion).