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The birth of JS
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This is one of the most educational and entertaining reads on the internet, if you are into that kind of thing:
https://github.com/denysdovhan/wtfjs
Has anyone actually read through that? Reading the first few examples and it's just not understanding how languages work half of the time:
Wow, no shit, non-empty string coerces to true, who would've guessed! Did you know that
!!"bullshit" === !!"true"as well? Mind=blown.Again, no shit, that's in the NaN specification and the page even mentions it, so why even include it?
Also, a huge proportion of the list is just not understanding IEEE floats behaviour and blaming the language for it. Exactly like this post is doing. All those weird number things js does is because it only uses floats for everything and every language that uses floats will behave the exact same way.