Why globalThis instead of something intuitive like globalObject, systemGlobal, or globalEntity?

[Boris Zbarsky]

On 11/21/19 5:21 PM, #!/JoePea wrote:
>> They were duly marked invalid, because the problem was with the expectations, not the behavior...
> 
> It's a design bug.

Well, sure, if we're talking about the fact that there is no clear 
separation in the web platform's exposed objects between "a container 
that can be navigated" and "the thing currently loaded in that 
container"; both are represented, kinda weirdly, by "window".

> I know, impossible to fix.

Then why was you previous mail saying that browsers should fix it?

> I'm not sure I even know what "globalThis" means now. :)

It means "that thing that `this` would return in global scope".  No 
more, no less.

In practice, in web pages, that thing is a WindowProxy object as defined 
at 
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/window-object.html#the-windowproxy-exotic-object

-Boris