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[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

typeof null === "object" was actually a bug in the early implementations, and they decided to keep it in the spec: https://2ality.com/2013/10/typeof-null.html

(see the comment from Brendan Eich)

[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Tony Hoare: "Introducing NULL was a billion-dollar mistake"

Brendan Eich: "Hold my undefined"

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

We had one null, yes. But what about second null?

[-] isaaclyman@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

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