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   Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jun-2025 20:01:55 JST Niki Tonsky

   Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a global variable. Not a method. Not a class. Not a singleton. Not a dependency injection framework. Just a global variable.

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     Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jun-2025 21:52:06 JST Niki Tonsky

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     • Andrew Helwer

     @ahelwer I’m more afraid of people who put (randomly acquired) principles over common sense. Who says all global variables are always bad? What if code with a global variable is shorter, simpler, more straightforward? You’d still think it’s bad? Why?

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     Andrew Helwer (ahelwer@discuss.systems)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jun-2025 21:52:07 JST Andrew Helwer

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     @nikitonsky I pray I never encounter this lol. I visualize accepting I need to make a global variable as having the same energy as, like, an idealistic politician realizing they need to jettison their values once acquiring power or something