i mean its still good to use an abstraction layer in case you ever have to change the underlying call; it's far easier to change it in one place instead of replacing every call

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Is this a joke?

If you need a different random function, you write a different random function either way. Having one function do nothing but call another function does nothing.

[–] x1gma@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

It's not about a different function providing different randomness, but providing a compatible implementation for environments not supporting the "regular" implementation.

If this screenshot is legit, I guarantee you that either the library is older and there was some weird branching for IE or it's brand new and had branching for the hot new JS runtime / cross compiling.

Supporting a metric fuckton of browsers and environments takes the same amount of shims.

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