Comment by Izkata

One can know the intricacies of how something works and still possess a valid opinion that it doesn't work all that well or defies common sense and expectations.

The complaint is that type coercion exists at all. It solves no problems and creates several out of thin air.

Or are you arguing that ceteris paribus you'd rather not have the language throw an error or just propagate undefined?

> peoples' complaints about javascript type coercion is that they simply never bothered to learn how it works

soo.... if the pesky people keep complaining, maybe it really doesn't make any sense? i for the life of me could never figure out why a bunch of mainstream languages a couple of decades ago decided that typing is no longer necessary and should be abolished. Is there any benefit of removing type checking (and relying on bizarre implicit coercion rules when ambiguity ensues)?

You will never bother me to learn something as convoluted as {} being sometimes parsed as an object and sometimes as a code block.

Thanks for posting this. People still don't seem to get that there's no mystery out to make their life difficult and that unfortunately everything can probably ultimately be understood in a deterministic system.