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Instead of trying to make it work, javascript could just say "error." Being untyped doesn't mean you can't have error messages.
This is fair enough from an idealistic view. In practice, you don't want your entire website to shit itself because of a potentially insignificant error.
Look! I bought this for free on capybaras website, there's a glitch!
capybara: at least it didn't throw an error.
/ jk 😁
Use typescript if you're paranoid about this