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I think JavaScript global namespace is massive in the browser. Under nodejs things are much saner.


It’s increasingly almost the same, aside from very DOM/*ML rendering contexts, and getting more similar as time goes on. Which is good for portability but JS (ECMAScript/TC-39) is huge in itself, and the various compatible things in the JS runtime ecosystem (browsers/Node/Deno) is also huge. Node was historically more limited here but given how much the language itself is expanding they have to choose compat.




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