While I’ve never actually used `with()` that much, I do feel that it’s a lost opportunity b.c. `with()` was basically the only way to get dynamically scoped variables (instead of lexically scoped ones) in JS (and tbh, in other ALGOL-derived languages as well).

Dynamically scoped variables are a much better solution to global variables… so for example, in Common Lisp you can have a STANDARD-OUTPUT variable that you can use to log things in your code, and then if you want to temporarily redirect your logs to a file, you can just do:

    (let ((*STANDARD-OUTPUT* file))
      (your-code-runs-here))

And the code in the block will automatically redirect your output to the file.