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		macintux 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Global variables are not the problem And man, the bugs they cause.

nejsjsjsbsb 11 months ago [–]

Man, the bugs they prevent. Vs everyone rolling their own multithreaded file reader/writer code in C. How many programmers would think to journal transactions and ship them for backup for example.

SQL or 15000 lines of C++ or Go or Rust doing whatever with files.

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