[RaisingSpear]

Yeah, you can write it in less than a minute:

const tryNew = (f, ...a) => { try { return new f(...a); } catch(x) { return undefined; } };

const myUrl = tryNew(URL, 'http://example.com/');

I don't get why JS devs like to whinge about the smallest things. And we get stuff like leftPad because of huge aversion to writing utility functions.

[hyperhopper]

Ironic since your snippet is now a new leftpad.

Does every dev need to write the same line now? Or should your one-liner be a library?

The basics that everybody needs, should be standardized in the standard library.

[RaisingSpear]

> Does every dev need to write the same line now?

Yes.

> Or should your one-liner be a library?

Definitely not.

Particularly if I can write the one-liner faster than it takes one to search, check, include and install the library.