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> these are not footguns and should not be used to attack JavaScript

No one is calling them that except you. The site says it right at the front:

> most of this syntax is probably, and hopefully, not something you use in your daily life.

Your obsession with having to choose Side A or Side B won't let you see this for what it is...

Just showing weird syntax in JS. That's all. Good lord.

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I am not choosing a side here.

However, deciding which language to use for a certain task is a legitimate choice that people to make. When making such decision, people need to analysis the pros and cons of a language. For countless times, I have seen people claiming JavaScript is bad/inconsistent/weird for reasons like `"1" + 1 === "11"` but `"1" - 1 === 0`. All I am saying here is things like these should not weigh too much when deciding whether to use JavaScript.

the title is "javascript is weird", not "here's some weird syntax in javascript"

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