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by aikah 4125 days ago
Wow neat,yeah, js devs are going to call anyone out that doesnt use semicolons.

Question : If you ever wanted 1 breaking change in the language, and somehow it would be possible (I know it wouldn't) what feature would you change ? Again just 1 feature.
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BrendanEich 4125 days ago
I would undo the implicit conversion madness around == and !=.
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cozuya 4125 days ago
Is that really a big concern today where == is heavily frowned on by just about everyone due to the above and its slowness?
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BrendanEich 4125 days ago
== is not slow when types of operands (in typeof sense) match -- then it's equivalent to ===.

You'll find a lot of == out there, or would if only Google code search were still up.

Hey, I got to answer with the one thing I'd change. There are more than a few, and I had to pick. Losing the equivalence relation I had in the first ten days (apart from NaN != NaN of course) was my pick.

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