The JavaScript Quirk Enthusiast With No Practical Applications

The JavaScript Quirk Enthusiast With No Practical Applications
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Ah, the classic JavaScript quirk-pointer who can't explain why it actually matters. The meme perfectly skewers those developers who love pointing out that [] - {} = NaN in JavaScript without being able to articulate why anyone should care.

It's like someone memorizing that a tomato is technically a fruit just to interject it into every culinary conversation, then shrugging when asked how that knowledge improves anyone's cooking.

For the curious: this quirk happens because JavaScript tries to convert both objects to primitives when using the subtraction operator. The array becomes an empty string, the object becomes "[object Object]", and subtracting a string from a string gives you... Not a Number. Fascinating? Perhaps. Relevant to your day-to-day coding? About as much as knowing the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.

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