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by Rumudiez 241 days ago
this issue was caused by a framework that's trying to do too much, relying on "magic" interfaces to supposedly reduce developer burden. the function is very unambiguously written and the language did nothing wrong

I also support using whatever language you and your team prefer when you can. that's the glory of backend: no restrictions on what you can run. but sometimes you need to write client software, and those are strictly easier to manage in the platform's native tongue: Swift, Kotlin, JS, and so on
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MangoToupe 241 days ago
> this issue was caused by a framework that's trying to do too much, relying on "magic" interfaces to supposedly reduce developer burden. the function is very unambiguously written and the language did nothing wrong

The function is unambiguously written, but the runtime functions differently, and this is not a language problem? This is incoherent; one of these statements is incorrect.

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bigstrat2003 241 days ago
> the function is very unambiguously written and the language did nothing wrong

The language absolutely did something wrong, by trying to evaluate a non-boolean type as a boolean. That is a horrible footgun and JS is absolutely at fault for doing so.

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