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		tfb on Sept 9, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I think Node.JS is a terrible platform The key is that I'm not actually polluting the global namespace. I also feel like using the globals object + require() would still be ugly/messy.

ricardobeat on Sept 9, 2012 [–]

Global objects are not as much a sin as in the browser, since the environment is usually completely under your control. And of course, you wouldn't use more than a couple.

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