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Okay, let's see what “the standard” has to say… “Clauses 18 through 28 define the ECMAScript standard library.” —ECMA-262, 12th edition, June 2021, ECMAScript

• pwdisswordfish8 5y ago
  ... so? The current incarnation of TC-39 has produced something that's a mess in more ways than one. The spec somehow managed to make it all the way to 5.1 and with that term nowhere to be found. With all the people who've got their hands in the spec nowadays, that someone playing it fast and loose with language also used the wrong terminology is not particularly surprising, nor does it make it any less grating to hear. (Does the standard provide for a way not to run with the "standard library"? To opt for a different library of your choosing, for example, or no library at all? No? So it's a set of built-ins that are just an inescapable part of the language, then.)