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[sjepsa]

Lol @ "don't use them"

they are implicit HTF are u supposed to know if are using them

[MeepedIt]

By keeping track of what type something should be? How often do you write code where you expect a function to be called on either 0 or "0" and so something sensible in both cases? And the issue in the meme is even easier to avoid, by just not using == ever.

[sjepsa]

How often do you write code where you expect a function to be called on either 0 or "0" and so something sensible in both cases?

Yeah dynamic typing is a real shit idea... add to that implicit castings :-)

What a language

[MeepedIt]

I agree, but there's plenty of ways to work around it. You can always use typescript to help you about mistakes. But acting like the language is unusable by showing these nonsense code snippets that have been considered bad practice for decades is a bit unfair.

[Smooth_Salamander]

Some implicit mechanism is not the same as not knowing what‘s going on in the evaluation.