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		log_e on Oct 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: setBigTimeout It's in the standard library. You're a bad programmer if you don't learn the ins and outs of the standard library, or make sweeping generalizations.

notpushkin on Oct 19, 2024 [–]

Standard library is an API just like any other library. The only thing different about it is backward compatibility (which in JS is paramount and the is reason setTimeout can't be fixed directly). It is a bad design still.

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