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by e28eta 3922 days ago
Our Java backend serializes strings that look like numbers as numbers in JSON. When the ObjC code deserializes, we have properties that might be the NSString we expect, or an NSNumber just because the user entered all digits.

I wonder if the Java library was comfortable doing that because of JS's quirks with types. I think it's still bonkers behavior though.