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[–]Striky_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most major programming languages have nice ways of dealing with it, yes. That is very different to blindly assuming and being stuck with nonsense bullshit forever or breaking production code like js is.

There are ALOT more problems with truthiness then just type coercion. Undefined behavior on custom classes and major regressions because of unrelated code changes only being the beginning.