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The Holy Trinity of JavaScript (programming.dev)
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[–] Turun@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

It's a nice story, but it doesn't make any sense.

The goal of JS - just like with HTML Renderers - is to be as resilient as possible so that even a broken website will still run. You can omit the head tags, and not close your body and HTML tags - the browser will still do its best to render the website. The same goes for JavaScript. You are comparing 1234 to "1234"? I could fail with a catastrophic error and make the whole website crash - or I'll just pretend that you meant to parse the string as a number before the comparison.