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POV: You maintain a JS library that 80% of modern web infrastructure uses as a dependency. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 12 points 5 days ago

You can, but you shouldn’t. You don’t know what else relies on Math.random. That’s why there’s the wrapper function. That you can override in unit tests without worrying about other, unrelated code.

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