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I know it’s a joke, but it’s an old one and it doesn’t make a lot of sense in this day and age.
Why are you comparing null to numbers? Shouldn’t you be assuring your values are valid first? Why are you using the “cast everything to the type you see fit and compare” operator?
Other languages would simply fail. Once more JavaScript greatest sin is not throwing an exception when you ask it to do things that don’t make sense.
Step 1: Get to prod
Step 2-10: Add features
Step 11: Sell the company before it bites you
As a professional bite-mean-for-other-guy taker (right now in Java) this hurts my feelings.