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by zelphirkalt 854 days ago
The global state trap ... I wonder why people still do these things, especially in web context. Basically whenever one uses mutable global state and actually mutates it, one puts off issues to the future, until one day some poor soul has to deal with this or rewrite.
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It's ubiquitously used in the ruby community to this day.