[whollacsek]

For the betterment of the npm ecosystem the company should step in and depreciate all these simple packages. Or take over the responsibility over them for security reasons.

[wongarsu]

Which company? Npm Inc? Github? Microsoft? Google? Mozilla?

Each of those would cause an outroar, and it would be near-universally agreed that having a decentralized ecosystem is better than being beholden to the whims of $company. (it doesn't help that 3/5 of the companies I mentioned are Microsoft, famous for embrace-extend-extuinish)

[KaiserPro]

The problem is that there no real stdlib. Sure someone _could_ make a stdlib in npm, but it'd change everyweek.

[andrew_]

A stdlib wouldn't solve the problem for older environments because a stdlib would almost certainly be tied to engine versions.