> list of gotchas that omits discussion of falsiness
This was something I picked up pretty easily (blame perl, I guess? I blame perl for lots of things.) The weird way in which coersion would interplay with {truth,fals}iness, however, took much longer and involved much weeping and gnashing of teeth.
> And the throwaway comment about JavaScript being poorly designed is facile and annoying Every language anyone uses has warts.
Agreed. The post was helpful (and the link to Crockford's book is arguably the single most helpful thing in the list) but the off-hand comment about ES being poorly designed didn't add anything to the discussion.
This was something I picked up pretty easily (blame perl, I guess? I blame perl for lots of things.) The weird way in which coersion would interplay with {truth,fals}iness, however, took much longer and involved much weeping and gnashing of teeth.
> And the throwaway comment about JavaScript being poorly designed is facile and annoying Every language anyone uses has warts.
Agreed. The post was helpful (and the link to Crockford's book is arguably the single most helpful thing in the list) but the off-hand comment about ES being poorly designed didn't add anything to the discussion.