mde
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8 years ago I started building Jake around Node v0.2. Node was still pretty new and experimental, and I just wanted something to build my own projects without having to install Ruby. It originally was just a port of Rake, so I did most things the same way Rake did.
I would not be opposed to a major version bump that actually removes them from the global.
What was the rationale behind exposing the main jake methods (e.g.
desc,task,namespace) globally? It's a bit frustrating to have to add a linter annotation for all of them, and it runs the risk of collisions. This is a mistake mocha made which I think has hurt its adoption.