Right, so util module is for internal stuff. Then it makes sense to not add 
stuff into it willy-nilly. Good to know.

On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 1:06:51 PM UTC-4, Mikeal Rogers wrote:
>
> The util module is for common utilities required by *other core modules* 
> not utilities that are useful for node modules outside of core.
>
> Node core is crazy small, its not reasonable to think you can build an 
> application without installing additional modules with npm. Many great 
> utility modules exist in npm. 
>
> Underscore is the most depended on module in npm and it includes _.clone() 
> which is a copy function. lodash is another module which includes all the 
> functionality of underscore and then some and has deep copying support 
> (underscore copy is shallow).
>
> -Mikeal
>
> On May 1, 2013, at 9:42AM, Luke Arduini <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
> that's unnecessary bloat that can be handled fine as a module on npm.
>
>
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Ilya Shaisultanov 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> Why not add a way to copy objects, for example like 
>> SugarJS<https://github.com/andrewplummer/Sugar/blob/master/lib/object.js#L313>
>>  does?
>>
>> Util already has `inherits` helper and creating object copies is 
>> something that's not available natively and for newcomers there's a lot of 
>> gotchas, IMO, e.g. when someone tries to clone an object with nested 
>> properties and does a shallow clone, ending up with refs instead of copies.
>>
>> Having this in util would save people time and it'd be code that's 
>> reviewed by node maintainers (=> trustworthy).
>>
>> Just my 2 cents.
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