alt Hacker News> Part of the point the article makes is that most other popular languages have a comprehensive standard library.
Both the Browser and Node.js standard library are fairly extensive. I don't think there's much you can do with other language you can't do with Node.js. And as a lot of newer languages have demonstrated (like zig and hare), you don't need an extensive one.
It used to be true. The early days of node were pretty paltry. I think a lot of developers and projects have picked up these dependencies by habit and accretion and have never factored them out.