Comment on React Desktop – React UI Components for OS X El Capitan and Windows 10parentComments−insin10yThe link you provided to demonstrate the problem also gives you the solution:Moral of the story: > > Always use 3 equals unless you have a good reason to use 2.Tools like ESLint make it easy to enforce this (and to only allow == in the few cases where those good reasons apply).−trymas10yI think we are getting into deep rant, though I want to say, that even I know this rule of JS (always use 3 equals, unless you know why you need 2) why not make double equal work as triple one?−mkishi10yIf we were to rewrite history, that'd probably happen. Now count the number of languages that wouldn't reconsider something if we were able to..I understand your frustration with js, but let's not pretend it's objectively worse to learn to deal with its pitfalls instead of other languages'.−untog10yBecause JS makes a point of being backwards compatible. Which is great, because some people out there are still using IE6.
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The link you provided to demonstrate the problem also gives you the solution:
Tools like ESLint make it easy to enforce this (and to only allow == in the few cases where those good reasons apply).
I think we are getting into deep rant, though I want to say, that even I know this rule of JS (always use 3 equals, unless you know why you need 2) why not make double equal work as triple one?
If we were to rewrite history, that'd probably happen. Now count the number of languages that wouldn't reconsider something if we were able to..
I understand your frustration with js, but let's not pretend it's objectively worse to learn to deal with its pitfalls instead of other languages'.
Because JS makes a point of being backwards compatible. Which is great, because some people out there are still using IE6.