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People are working on bringing Base64/Hex conversion to JavaScript: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-arraybuffer-base64

I also provide a package to make the transition easier: https://github.com/sindresorhus/uint8array-extras (Feel free to copy-paste the code if you don't want another dependency)



Thanks for all the utility belts you've provided to the ecosystem.

It's insane to me that something as simple as concatenating an array needs a library, but as I've shown upthread, Uint8Arrays are way too complicated to work with.




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