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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean, boolean short circuit is a super idiomatic pattern in Javascript

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think that’s very team/project dependent. I’ve seen it done before indeed, but I’ve never been on a team where it was considered idiomatic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

That makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Because on JS the goal is to shave bytes to save money on data transfer rates

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's not that deep. It looks nice, and is easy to understand.