I think it's a combination of a relatively slim standard library and culture. For the culture part, JS devs seem to be more willing to install dependencies for

I think it's a combination of a relatively slim standard library and culture. For the culture part, JS devs seem to be more willing to install dependencies for basic functionality, rather that copy-pasting simple code into their projects. For example, `isobject` (https://www.npmjs.com/package/isobject https://www.npmjs.com/package/isobject) gets 55 million weekly downloads, but it's 3 lines of code