What is “left-pad”? If it does what I think it does, doing that with a LLM would be very wasteful.

EDIT: I remember the event now. Obviously you wouldn’t use a dependency for that. I think I understood your comment now anyway.

I guess forking is an easy way to benefit from others’ work.

I’m wondering if there is any game developer that chooses this fork knowing that it will likely not keep up with upstream features and fixes.

It was born as a villain from the very beginning.