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I hate JavaScript so much (lemm.ee)

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[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It does some funky things with type coercion and comparison which I don't particularly like, but I generally understand why it does things that way.

A lot of the weird quirks of JS come from the desire to avoid completely blowing up and crashing as much as possible, which makes sense in a web dev context. Forcing weird operations to at least return something can prevent an unhandled error state in a single component from causing an entire page to crash, even if that component ends up malfunctioning as a result.