The entire idea of padding by characters only fits a few use cases. leftPad would never have covered those cases. If you want tabular data use a table or grid.

The entire idea of padding by characters only fits a few use cases. leftPad would never have covered those cases. If you want tabular data use a table or grid. No amount of string gymnastics will get you aligned strings across languages and fonts. So yea, leftPad was always a bad idea because the only useful implementation is too trivial too have been put in a 3rd party library. Unless you believe there should have been a library called 'add' that was just `export const add = (a, b) => a + b;`