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Seriously.

Nobody needs a package for "left-pad", which is the most infamous example.

But there are a lot of areas where it's not a good use of your time to reinvent the wheel. There's no moral virtue in writing everything yourself. And popular packages have gone through a more bug-finding and bug-fixing than your personal code probably ever will.



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