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The birth of JS (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which is why I'm of the opinion that dynamically typed languages are evil. !!"false" should either be caught at compile time or raise an exception.

I'm thoroughly convinced that the only use of dynamically typed languages is to introduce bugs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I am with you. To me these are non-obvious details, just a bug waiting to silently happen in production.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Why? IMO that's perfectly valid. The various type coercions are sometimes crazy, but IMO the rule that non-empty string is coerced to true and empty string to false is very simple to follow. The snippet is not even a gotcha, I don't see anything worth failing over. Putting "true" or "false" in a string doesn't change that.