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[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Most scripting languages have a global scope of some kind. It's not that big of a deal.

I'd prefer not to have it, but it hasn't caused me problems in many years. Actually, the window object can be really useful in some situations so I'm not even sure about that.