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[-] firelizzard@programming.dev 52 points 4 months ago

Sure. But in a sane language doing something totally nonsensical like that is an error, and in a statically typed language it’s a compiler error. It doesn’t just silently do weird shit.

[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 4 months ago

Agreed! Unfortunately these maddening behaviors were kind of set in stone several decades ago, and it has been (correctly) decided "Don't break the web", these weird quirks are kept in modern interpreters/compilers.

It's actually quite interesting to read through the logic to follow when implementing an interpreter:

https://262.ecma-international.org/13.0/#sec-object.prototype.tostring

[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

a sane language

JavaScript

Pick one.

[-] firelizzard@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I thought it was clear I was saying JavaScript is not a sane language for this very reason

[-] jcg@halubilo.social 1 points 4 months ago

What's a sane, dynamically typed language?

[-] firelizzard@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

I was trying to make a point without starting a flamewar that was beside the point. Personally I’d never choose a dynamically typed language for a production system. That being said, Python and Ruby complain if you try to add an array, dict/hashmap, string, or number to another (of a different type) so they’re certainly more sane than JavaScript.