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I'm kind of surprised no one has tried to make a standard library for node - although I guess underscore/lodash come close.

The package situation is a serious problem for distro maintainers, which AFAICT have basically given up packaging any npm packages the traditional way. Luckily Nix[1] and Guix[2] can most likely support automatic importing from npm.

Incidentally, one of the many things I love about typescript is that it has zero non-dev dependencies [3].

[1] https://github.com/svanderburg/node2nix [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-03/msg008... [3] https://www.npmjs.com/package/typescript?activeTab=dependenc...

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