"There were like 77 Levenshtein distance packages on npm and all of them said they were the fastest." - @sanders_n
That's why the JavaScript ecosystem is great. Everything is the best.
Man, JavaScript is so dumb. Check out these two built-in functions with the same name that work totally differently!
> console.log("hello");
hello
undefined
> Math.log("hello");
NaN
It's been 5 years today since I joined the TypeScript team - which I guess is good since every other job post asks for ~5 years of TypeScript experience.
"Oh wow, you're from the future!? What do you do?"
"I do free work so people can make websites faster."
"Oh, weird, is the future like socialist or something?"
"Nope, I just occasionally do free work."
"For charity?"
"No."
"So, uh, you must really enjoy that."
"Not really."