Comment by tialaramex

Certainly "this is how C does it" might be the worst possible rationale for anything in this space. And I like C, got paid a whole lot of money to write C over many years.

But hilariously it's not even true, you see C believes the empty string is also true, it's a string, only the absence of a string would be false in C - whereas Javascript is quite sure the empty string, just like an undefined or null value, is false.