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POV: You maintain a JS library that 80% of modern web infrastructure uses as a dependency.
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this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
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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.