It may be, but this is a weird thread to bring that up since Javascript has padStart, and TFA is about building a web server with only the standard library.

the OP was referring to this incident https://github.com/stevemao/left-pad/issues/4

where a very basic package everyone depended on was yanked from npmjs.

azer's original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11340510