diff --git a/lib/_http_agent.js b/lib/_http_agent.js
index e3d307133864f4..17f6856bc703ad 100644
--- a/lib/_http_agent.js
+++ b/lib/_http_agent.js
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ function Agent(options) {
   this.defaultPort = 80;
   this.protocol = 'http:';
 
-  this.options = util._extend({}, options);
+  this.options = { ...options };
 
   // Don't confuse net and make it think that we're connecting to a pipe
   this.options.path = null;
@@ -146,8 +146,7 @@ Agent.prototype.addRequest = function addRequest(req, options, port/* legacy */,
     };
   }
 
-  options = util._extend({}, options);
-  util._extend(options, this.options);
+  options = { ...options, ...this.options };
   if (options.socketPath)
     options.path = options.socketPath;
 
@@ -194,8 +193,7 @@ Agent.prototype.addRequest = function addRequest(req, options, port/* legacy */,
 };
 
 Agent.prototype.createSocket = function createSocket(req, options, cb) {
-  options = util._extend({}, options);
-  util._extend(options, this.options);
+  options = { ...options, ...this.options };
   if (options.socketPath)
     options.path = options.socketPath;
 
diff --git a/lib/_http_client.js b/lib/_http_client.js
index 5dd75090361c7e..cbc406f5e8b8d0 100644
--- a/lib/_http_client.js
+++ b/lib/_http_client.js
@@ -93,11 +93,11 @@ function ClientRequest(input, options, cb) {
 
   if (typeof options === 'function') {
     cb = options;
-    options = null;
+    options = input || {};
+  } else {
+    options = Object.assign(input || {}, options);
   }
 
-  options = util._extend(input || {}, options || {});
-
   var agent = options.agent;
   var defaultAgent = options._defaultAgent || Agent.globalAgent;
   if (agent === false) {
diff --git a/lib/_http_server.js b/lib/_http_server.js
index cfcaf9f34c2ca1..c0172ccf52d1d9 100644
--- a/lib/_http_server.js
+++ b/lib/_http_server.js
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ function Server(options, requestListener) {
     requestListener = options;
     options = {};
   } else if (options == null || typeof options === 'object') {
-    options = util._extend({}, options);
+    options = { ...options };
   }
 
   this[kIncomingMessage] = options.IncomingMessage || IncomingMessage;
diff --git a/lib/_tls_wrap.js b/lib/_tls_wrap.js
index cf08c58971b54e..8d59da1b866f65 100644
--- a/lib/_tls_wrap.js
+++ b/lib/_tls_wrap.js
@@ -1108,9 +1108,9 @@ function SNICallback(servername, callback) {
 //
 //
 function normalizeConnectArgs(listArgs) {
-  var args = net._normalizeArgs(listArgs);
-  var options = args[0];
-  var cb = args[1];
+  const args = net._normalizeArgs(listArgs);
+  const options = args[0];
+  const cb = args[1];
 
   // If args[0] was options, then normalize dealt with it.
   // If args[0] is port, or args[0], args[1] is host, port, we need to
@@ -1118,12 +1118,12 @@ function normalizeConnectArgs(listArgs) {
   // the host/port/path args that it knows about, not the tls options.
   // This means that options.host overrides a host arg.
   if (listArgs[1] !== null && typeof listArgs[1] === 'object') {
-    util._extend(options, listArgs[1]);
+    Object.assign(options, listArgs[1]);
   } else if (listArgs[2] !== null && typeof listArgs[2] === 'object') {
-    util._extend(options, listArgs[2]);
+    Object.assign(options, listArgs[2]);
   }
 
-  return (cb) ? [options, cb] : [options];
+  return cb ? [options, cb] : [options];
 }
 
 function onConnectSecure() {
@@ -1204,14 +1204,14 @@ exports.connect = function connect(...args) {
                         'certificate verification.');
   }
 
-  var defaults = {
+  options = {
     rejectUnauthorized: !allowUnauthorized,
     ciphers: tls.DEFAULT_CIPHERS,
     checkServerIdentity: tls.checkServerIdentity,
-    minDHSize: 1024
+    minDHSize: 1024,
+    ...options
   };
 
-  options = util._extend(defaults, options || {});
   if (!options.keepAlive)
     options.singleUse = true;
 
diff --git a/lib/buffer.js b/lib/buffer.js
index 83deacd1fb0ce1..78bbbe0b73505a 100644
--- a/lib/buffer.js
+++ b/lib/buffer.js
@@ -37,7 +37,13 @@ const {
   kMaxLength,
   kStringMaxLength
 } = internalBinding('buffer');
-const { isAnyArrayBuffer } = internalBinding('types');
+const {
+  getOwnNonIndexProperties,
+  propertyFilter: {
+    ALL_PROPERTIES,
+    ONLY_ENUMERABLE
+  }
+} = internalBinding('util');
 const {
   customInspectSymbol,
   isInsideNodeModules,
@@ -45,12 +51,18 @@ const {
   kIsEncodingSymbol
 } = require('internal/util');
 const {
+  isAnyArrayBuffer,
   isArrayBufferView,
   isUint8Array
 } = require('internal/util/types');
 const {
   pendingDeprecation
 } = internalBinding('config');
+const {
+  formatProperty,
+  kObjectType
+} = require('internal/util/inspect');
+
 const {
   ERR_BUFFER_OUT_OF_BOUNDS,
   ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE,
@@ -670,10 +682,20 @@ Buffer.prototype.equals = function equals(otherBuffer) {
 Buffer.prototype[customInspectSymbol] = function inspect(recurseTimes, ctx) {
   const max = exports.INSPECT_MAX_BYTES;
   const actualMax = Math.min(max, this.length);
-  let str = this.hexSlice(0, actualMax).replace(/(.{2})/g, '$1 ').trim();
   const remaining = this.length - max;
+  let str = this.hexSlice(0, actualMax).replace(/(.{2})/g, '$1 ').trim();
   if (remaining > 0)
     str += ` ... ${remaining} more byte${remaining > 1 ? 's' : ''}`;
+  // Inspect special properties as well, if possible.
+  if (ctx) {
+    const filter = ctx.showHidden ? ALL_PROPERTIES : ONLY_ENUMERABLE;
+    str += getOwnNonIndexProperties(this, filter).reduce((str, key) => {
+      // Using `formatProperty()` expects an indentationLvl to be set.
+      ctx.indentationLvl = 0;
+      str += `, ${formatProperty(ctx, this, recurseTimes, key, kObjectType)}`;
+      return str;
+    }, '');
+  }
   return `<${this.constructor.name} ${str}>`;
 };
 Buffer.prototype.inspect = Buffer.prototype[customInspectSymbol];
diff --git a/lib/child_process.js b/lib/child_process.js
index 108254f4a3c2b3..1a5411c8164c10 100644
--- a/lib/child_process.js
+++ b/lib/child_process.js
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ exports.fork = function fork(modulePath /* , args, options */) {
       throw new ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE(`arguments[${pos}]`, arguments[pos]);
     }
 
-    options = util._extend({}, arguments[pos++]);
+    options = { ...arguments[pos++] };
   }
 
   // Prepare arguments for fork:
@@ -176,20 +176,12 @@ Object.defineProperty(exports.exec, util.promisify.custom, {
 });
 
 exports.execFile = function execFile(file /* , args, options, callback */) {
-  var args = [];
-  var callback;
-  var options = {
-    encoding: 'utf8',
-    timeout: 0,
-    maxBuffer: 200 * 1024,
-    killSignal: 'SIGTERM',
-    cwd: null,
-    env: null,
-    shell: false
-  };
+  let args = [];
+  let callback;
+  let options;
 
   // Parse the optional positional parameters.
-  var pos = 1;
+  let pos = 1;
   if (pos < arguments.length && Array.isArray(arguments[pos])) {
     args = arguments[pos++];
   } else if (pos < arguments.length && arguments[pos] == null) {
@@ -197,7 +189,7 @@ exports.execFile = function execFile(file /* , args, options, callback */) {
   }
 
   if (pos < arguments.length && typeof arguments[pos] === 'object') {
-    util._extend(options, arguments[pos++]);
+    options = arguments[pos++];
   } else if (pos < arguments.length && arguments[pos] == null) {
     pos++;
   }
@@ -210,6 +202,17 @@ exports.execFile = function execFile(file /* , args, options, callback */) {
     throw new ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE('args', arguments[pos]);
   }
 
+  options = {
+    encoding: 'utf8',
+    timeout: 0,
+    maxBuffer: 200 * 1024,
+    killSignal: 'SIGTERM',
+    cwd: null,
+    env: null,
+    shell: false,
+    ...options
+  };
+
   // Validate the timeout, if present.
   validateTimeout(options.timeout);
 
@@ -580,7 +583,7 @@ function spawnSync(file, args, options) {
   options.stdio = _validateStdio(options.stdio || 'pipe', true).stdio;
 
   if (options.input) {
-    var stdin = options.stdio[0] = util._extend({}, options.stdio[0]);
+    var stdin = options.stdio[0] = { ...options.stdio[0] };
     stdin.input = options.input;
   }
 
@@ -588,7 +591,7 @@ function spawnSync(file, args, options) {
   for (var i = 0; i < options.stdio.length; i++) {
     var input = options.stdio[i] && options.stdio[i].input;
     if (input != null) {
-      var pipe = options.stdio[i] = util._extend({}, options.stdio[i]);
+      var pipe = options.stdio[i] = { ...options.stdio[i] };
       if (isArrayBufferView(input)) {
         pipe.input = input;
       } else if (typeof input === 'string') {
diff --git a/lib/domain.js b/lib/domain.js
index bd59a709298345..a60147b49eacbd 100644
--- a/lib/domain.js
+++ b/lib/domain.js
@@ -350,11 +350,9 @@ Domain.prototype.run = function(fn) {
 function intercepted(_this, self, cb, fnargs) {
   if (fnargs[0] && fnargs[0] instanceof Error) {
     var er = fnargs[0];
-    util._extend(er, {
-      domainBound: cb,
-      domainThrown: false,
-      domain: self
-    });
+    er.domainBound = cb;
+    er.domainThrown = false;
+    er.domain = self;
     self.emit('error', er);
     return;
   }
diff --git a/lib/fs.js b/lib/fs.js
index 57b3bed1e6e883..ad0a498e639521 100644
--- a/lib/fs.js
+++ b/lib/fs.js
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ const {
   O_SYMLINK
 } = constants;
 
-const { _extend } = require('util');
 const pathModule = require('path');
 const { isArrayBufferView } = require('internal/util/types');
 const binding = process.binding('fs');
@@ -1294,21 +1293,20 @@ function watchFile(filename, options, listener) {
   filename = pathModule.resolve(filename);
   let stat;
 
-  const defaults = {
+  if (options === null || typeof options !== 'object') {
+    listener = options;
+    options = null;
+  }
+
+  options = {
     // Poll interval in milliseconds. 5007 is what libev used to use. It's
     // a little on the slow side but let's stick with it for now to keep
     // behavioral changes to a minimum.
     interval: 5007,
-    persistent: true
+    persistent: true,
+    ...options
   };
 
-  if (options !== null && typeof options === 'object') {
-    options = _extend(defaults, options);
-  } else {
-    listener = options;
-    options = defaults;
-  }
-
   if (typeof listener !== 'function') {
     throw new ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE('listener', 'Function', listener);
   }
diff --git a/lib/https.js b/lib/https.js
index 06b37c2143da9d..96111176994a25 100644
--- a/lib/https.js
+++ b/lib/https.js
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ function Server(opts, requestListener) {
     requestListener = opts;
     opts = undefined;
   }
-  opts = util._extend({}, opts);
+  opts = { ...opts };
 
   if (!opts.ALPNProtocols) {
     // http/1.0 is not defined as Protocol IDs in IANA
@@ -110,9 +110,10 @@ function createConnection(port, host, options) {
     const session = this._getSession(options._agentKey);
     if (session) {
       debug('reuse session for %j', options._agentKey);
-      options = util._extend({
-        session: session
-      }, options);
+      options = {
+        session,
+        ...options
+      };
     }
   }
 
@@ -291,7 +292,7 @@ function request(...args) {
   }
 
   if (args[0] && typeof args[0] !== 'function') {
-    options = util._extend(options, args.shift());
+    Object.assign(options, args.shift());
   }
 
   options._defaultAgent = module.exports.globalAgent;
diff --git a/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js b/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js
index d7e8ff5016f763..5830055ce4bc80 100644
--- a/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js
+++ b/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@
       // TODO(addaleax): Turn into a full runtime deprecation.
       const { pendingDeprecation } = internalBinding('config');
       const utilBinding = internalBinding('util');
-      const types = internalBinding('types');
+      const types = NativeModule.require('internal/util/types');
       for (const name of [
         'isArrayBuffer', 'isArrayBufferView', 'isAsyncFunction',
         'isDataView', 'isDate', 'isExternal', 'isMap', 'isMapIterator',
diff --git a/lib/internal/cluster/child.js b/lib/internal/cluster/child.js
index 13a22b0186fc28..272b0d2bd95008 100644
--- a/lib/internal/cluster/child.js
+++ b/lib/internal/cluster/child.js
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 'use strict';
 const assert = require('assert');
-const util = require('util');
 const path = require('path');
 const EventEmitter = require('events');
 const { owner_symbol } = require('internal/async_hooks').symbols;
@@ -71,11 +70,12 @@ cluster._getServer = function(obj, options, cb) {
 
   indexes.set(indexesKey, index);
 
-  const message = util._extend({
+  const message = {
     act: 'queryServer',
     index,
-    data: null
-  }, options);
+    data: null,
+    ...options
+  };
 
   message.address = address;
 
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ function rr(message, indexesKey, cb) {
 
   function getsockname(out) {
     if (key)
-      util._extend(out, message.sockname);
+      Object.assign(out, message.sockname);
 
     return 0;
   }
diff --git a/lib/internal/cluster/master.js b/lib/internal/cluster/master.js
index 60083c6393e781..c4f8e2b0efa299 100644
--- a/lib/internal/cluster/master.js
+++ b/lib/internal/cluster/master.js
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 'use strict';
 const assert = require('assert');
 const { fork } = require('child_process');
-const util = require('util');
 const path = require('path');
 const EventEmitter = require('events');
 const RoundRobinHandle = require('internal/cluster/round_robin_handle');
@@ -47,14 +46,14 @@ if (schedulingPolicy === undefined) {
 cluster.schedulingPolicy = schedulingPolicy;
 
 cluster.setupMaster = function(options) {
-  var settings = {
+  const settings = {
     args: process.argv.slice(2),
     exec: process.argv[1],
     execArgv: process.execArgv,
-    silent: false
+    silent: false,
+    ...cluster.settings,
+    ...options
   };
-  util._extend(settings, cluster.settings);
-  util._extend(settings, options || {});
 
   // Tell V8 to write profile data for each process to a separate file.
   // Without --logfile=v8-%p.log, everything ends up in a single, unusable
@@ -101,15 +100,12 @@ function setupSettingsNT(settings) {
 }
 
 function createWorkerProcess(id, env) {
-  const workerEnv = util._extend({}, process.env);
+  const workerEnv = { ...process.env, ...env, NODE_UNIQUE_ID: `${id}` };
   const execArgv = cluster.settings.execArgv.slice();
   const debugArgRegex = /--inspect(?:-brk|-port)?|--debug-port/;
   const nodeOptions = process.env.NODE_OPTIONS ?
     process.env.NODE_OPTIONS : '';
 
-  util._extend(workerEnv, env);
-  workerEnv.NODE_UNIQUE_ID = '' + id;
-
   if (execArgv.some((arg) => arg.match(debugArgRegex)) ||
       nodeOptions.match(debugArgRegex)) {
     let inspectPort;
@@ -315,17 +311,18 @@ function queryServer(worker, message) {
 
   // Set custom server data
   handle.add(worker, (errno, reply, handle) => {
-    reply = util._extend({
-      errno: errno,
-      key: key,
-      ack: message.seq,
-      data: handles.get(key).data
-    }, reply);
+    const { data } = handles.get(key);
 
     if (errno)
       handles.delete(key);  // Gives other workers a chance to retry.
 
-    send(worker, reply, handle);
+    send(worker, {
+      errno,
+      key,
+      ack: message.seq,
+      data,
+      ...reply
+    }, handle);
   });
 }
 
diff --git a/lib/internal/cluster/utils.js b/lib/internal/cluster/utils.js
index 3fc5e408b76a5a..f20206c842be96 100644
--- a/lib/internal/cluster/utils.js
+++ b/lib/internal/cluster/utils.js
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 'use strict';
-const util = require('util');
 
 module.exports = {
   sendHelper,
@@ -14,12 +13,11 @@ function sendHelper(proc, message, handle, cb) {
     return false;
 
   // Mark message as internal. See INTERNAL_PREFIX in lib/child_process.js
-  message = util._extend({ cmd: 'NODE_CLUSTER' }, message);
+  message = { cmd: 'NODE_CLUSTER', ...message, seq };
 
   if (typeof cb === 'function')
     callbacks.set(seq, cb);
 
-  message.seq = seq;
   seq += 1;
   return proc.send(message, handle);
 }
diff --git a/lib/internal/encoding.js b/lib/internal/encoding.js
index ad056fd0bd997f..0084c19b904a82 100644
--- a/lib/internal/encoding.js
+++ b/lib/internal/encoding.js
@@ -21,11 +21,10 @@ const {
   customInspectSymbol: inspect
 } = require('internal/util');
 
-const { isArrayBufferView } = require('internal/util/types');
-
 const {
-  isArrayBuffer
-} = internalBinding('types');
+  isArrayBuffer,
+  isArrayBufferView
+} = require('internal/util/types');
 
 const {
   encodeUtf8String
diff --git a/lib/internal/fs/utils.js b/lib/internal/fs/utils.js
index 4db4fb536c0b6a..0062bd435530d0 100644
--- a/lib/internal/fs/utils.js
+++ b/lib/internal/fs/utils.js
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ function getOptions(options, defaultOptions) {
   }
 
   if (typeof options === 'string') {
-    defaultOptions = util._extend({}, defaultOptions);
+    defaultOptions = { ...defaultOptions };
     defaultOptions.encoding = options;
     options = defaultOptions;
   } else if (typeof options !== 'object') {
diff --git a/lib/internal/repl.js b/lib/internal/repl.js
index 4c4e3c8cb4e275..e58752e76eb890 100644
--- a/lib/internal/repl.js
+++ b/lib/internal/repl.js
@@ -24,12 +24,13 @@ function createRepl(env, opts, cb) {
     cb = opts;
     opts = null;
   }
-  opts = util._extend({
+  opts = {
     ignoreUndefined: false,
     terminal: process.stdout.isTTY,
     useGlobal: true,
-    breakEvalOnSigint: true
-  }, opts);
+    breakEvalOnSigint: true,
+    ...opts
+  };
 
   if (parseInt(env.NODE_NO_READLINE)) {
     opts.terminal = false;
diff --git a/lib/internal/url.js b/lib/internal/url.js
index 13063cb8f2f5a6..45ed236511ac9a 100644
--- a/lib/internal/url.js
+++ b/lib/internal/url.js
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ class URLSearchParams {
       return ctx.stylize('[Object]', 'special');
 
     var separator = ', ';
-    var innerOpts = util._extend({}, ctx);
+    var innerOpts = { ...ctx };
     if (recurseTimes !== null) {
       innerOpts.depth = recurseTimes - 1;
     }
@@ -382,12 +382,13 @@ Object.defineProperties(URL.prototype, {
     value: function format(options) {
       if (options && typeof options !== 'object')
         throw new ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE('options', 'Object', options);
-      options = util._extend({
+      options = {
         fragment: true,
         unicode: false,
         search: true,
-        auth: true
-      }, options);
+        auth: true,
+        ...options
+      };
       const ctx = this[context];
       var ret = ctx.scheme;
       if (ctx.host !== null) {
@@ -1202,7 +1203,7 @@ defineIDLClass(URLSearchParamsIteratorPrototype, 'URLSearchParams Iterator', {
     if (typeof recurseTimes === 'number' && recurseTimes < 0)
       return ctx.stylize('[Object]', 'special');
 
-    const innerOpts = util._extend({}, ctx);
+    const innerOpts = { ...ctx };
     if (recurseTimes !== null) {
       innerOpts.depth = recurseTimes - 1;
     }
diff --git a/lib/internal/util.js b/lib/internal/util.js
index 6929085d469676..fb3eed6f5e0dde 100644
--- a/lib/internal/util.js
+++ b/lib/internal/util.js
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ const {
 } = internalBinding('util');
 const {
   isNativeError
-} = internalBinding('types');
+} = require('internal/util/types');
 
 const noCrypto = !process.versions.openssl;
 
diff --git a/lib/internal/util/comparisons.js b/lib/internal/util/comparisons.js
index 1d959f843bcbd3..d0726089063852 100644
--- a/lib/internal/util/comparisons.js
+++ b/lib/internal/util/comparisons.js
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 'use strict';
 
 const { compare } = internalBinding('buffer');
-const { isArrayBufferView } = require('internal/util/types');
 const {
   isAnyArrayBuffer,
+  isArrayBufferView,
   isDate,
   isMap,
   isRegExp,
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ const {
   isBooleanObject,
   isBigIntObject,
   isSymbolObject
-} = internalBinding('types');
+} = require('internal/util/types');
 const {
   getOwnNonIndexProperties,
   propertyFilter: {
diff --git a/lib/internal/util/inspect.js b/lib/internal/util/inspect.js
index 4697829fba2756..b23ae9438ff877 100644
--- a/lib/internal/util/inspect.js
+++ b/lib/internal/util/inspect.js
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@ const {
   isStackOverflowError
 } = require('internal/errors');
 
-const types = internalBinding('types');
-Object.assign(types, require('internal/util/types'));
 const {
   isAnyArrayBuffer,
   isArrayBuffer,
@@ -38,6 +36,8 @@ const {
   isExternal,
   isMap,
   isMapIterator,
+  isModuleNamespaceObject,
+  isNativeError,
   isPromise,
   isSet,
   isSetIterator,
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ const {
   isFloat64Array,
   isBigInt64Array,
   isBigUint64Array
-} = types;
+} = require('internal/util/types');
 
 const ReflectApply = Reflect.apply;
 
@@ -385,9 +385,9 @@ function getKeys(value, showHidden) {
     try {
       keys = Object.keys(value);
     } catch (err) {
-      if (types.isNativeError(err) &&
+      if (isNativeError(err) &&
           err.name === 'ReferenceError' &&
-          types.isModuleNamespaceObject(value)) {
+          isModuleNamespaceObject(value)) {
         keys = Object.getOwnPropertyNames(value);
       } else {
         throw err;
@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ function formatRaw(ctx, value, recurseTimes) {
     } else if (isWeakMap(value)) {
       braces[0] = `${getPrefix(constructor, tag, 'WeakMap')}{`;
       formatter = ctx.showHidden ? formatWeakMap : formatWeakCollection;
-    } else if (types.isModuleNamespaceObject(value)) {
+    } else if (isModuleNamespaceObject(value)) {
       braces[0] = `[${tag}] {`;
       formatter = formatNamespaceObject;
       skip = true;
@@ -883,7 +883,7 @@ function formatNamespaceObject(ctx, value, recurseTimes, keys) {
       output[i] = formatProperty(ctx, value, recurseTimes, keys[i],
                                  kObjectType);
     } catch (err) {
-      if (!(types.isNativeError(err) && err.name === 'ReferenceError')) {
+      if (!(isNativeError(err) && err.name === 'ReferenceError')) {
         throw err;
       }
       // Use the existing functionality. This makes sure the indentation and
@@ -1220,5 +1220,7 @@ function reduceToSingleString(ctx, output, base, braces) {
 }
 
 module.exports = {
-  inspect
+  inspect,
+  formatProperty,
+  kObjectType
 };
diff --git a/lib/internal/util/types.js b/lib/internal/util/types.js
index 182625a9716c72..865818c661b78d 100644
--- a/lib/internal/util/types.js
+++ b/lib/internal/util/types.js
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ function isBigUint64Array(value) {
 }
 
 module.exports = {
+  ...internalBinding('types'),
   isArrayBufferView,
   isTypedArray,
   isUint8Array,
diff --git a/lib/net.js b/lib/net.js
index eb5fae76fa17de..936dee088beb3f 100644
--- a/lib/net.js
+++ b/lib/net.js
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ function Socket(options) {
   if (typeof options === 'number')
     options = { fd: options }; // Legacy interface.
   else
-    options = util._extend({}, options);
+    options = { ...options };
 
   options.readable = options.readable || false;
   options.writable = options.writable || false;
diff --git a/lib/tty.js b/lib/tty.js
index 62945a78eb1f0f..6efaac6e43215f 100644
--- a/lib/tty.js
+++ b/lib/tty.js
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 'use strict';
 
-const { inherits, _extend } = require('util');
+const { inherits } = require('util');
 const net = require('net');
 const { TTY, isTTY } = internalBinding('tty_wrap');
 const errors = require('internal/errors');
@@ -47,14 +47,13 @@ function ReadStream(fd, options) {
     throw new ERR_TTY_INIT_FAILED(ctx);
   }
 
-  options = _extend({
+  net.Socket.call(this, {
     highWaterMark: 0,
     readable: true,
     writable: false,
-    handle: tty
-  }, options);
-
-  net.Socket.call(this, options);
+    handle: tty,
+    ...options
+  });
 
   this.isRaw = false;
   this.isTTY = true;
diff --git a/lib/util.js b/lib/util.js
index 06ce842934505a..624f4dfb7d032b 100644
--- a/lib/util.js
+++ b/lib/util.js
@@ -31,13 +31,7 @@ const {
 const { validateNumber } = require('internal/validators');
 const { TextDecoder, TextEncoder } = require('internal/encoding');
 const { isBuffer } = require('buffer').Buffer;
-
-const types = internalBinding('types');
-Object.assign(types, require('internal/util/types'));
-const {
-  isRegExp,
-  isDate,
-} = types;
+const types = require('internal/util/types');
 
 const {
   deprecate,
@@ -433,9 +427,9 @@ module.exports = exports = {
   isString,
   isSymbol,
   isUndefined,
-  isRegExp,
+  isRegExp: types.isRegExp,
   isObject,
-  isDate,
+  isDate: types.isDate,
   isError(e) {
     return objectToString(e) === '[object Error]' || e instanceof Error;
   },
diff --git a/lib/zlib.js b/lib/zlib.js
index 49dcd4e92ecde4..2a840fe036abad 100644
--- a/lib/zlib.js
+++ b/lib/zlib.js
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ const {
 const Transform = require('_stream_transform');
 const {
   deprecate,
-  _extend,
   inherits,
   types: {
     isAnyArrayBuffer,
@@ -240,7 +239,7 @@ function ZlibBase(opts, mode, handle, { flush, finishFlush, fullFlush }) {
       Z_NO_FLUSH, Z_BLOCK, finishFlush);
 
     if (opts.encoding || opts.objectMode || opts.writableObjectMode) {
-      opts = _extend({}, opts);
+      opts = { ...opts };
       opts.encoding = null;
       opts.objectMode = false;
       opts.writableObjectMode = false;
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-buffer-inspect.js b/test/parallel/test-buffer-inspect.js
index 9f91de700c7878..9230d7b089dd16 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-buffer-inspect.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-buffer-inspect.js
@@ -55,4 +55,4 @@ assert.strictEqual(util.inspect(b), expected);
 assert.strictEqual(util.inspect(s), expected);
 
 b.inspect = undefined;
-assert.strictEqual(util.inspect(b), expected);
+assert.strictEqual(util.inspect(b), '<Buffer 31 32, inspect: undefined>');