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Not really. Usually people include them as "devDependencies", and Babel will transpile to ES5 before publishing.

I think Guillermo simply didn't care. Because it's not important for a joke.

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Uninformed presumptions are madness.

I think it was important to him since otherwise leftPad probably wouldn't fit in a tweet so nicely..

Umm isn't babel-runtime an actual third party language runtime dependency (like polyfills and shared code for stuff like async) ?

Indeed, it is the only post-build babel dependency required if you want things like you say: async/await. The rest are the babel dependencies are build tools.

I wouldn't really call it a dependency since it gets inlined with the shipped code.

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