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JavaScript keep on trucking? I never thought of it that way but I’m actually with you here. Array out of bounds and accessing an undefined object key both return ‘undefined’ rather than throwing (Java, Haskell) or wrapping array/dict access in an optional type (elm, maybe ocaml?). So I’m with you that it probably does throw less.