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I didn't know that one. I only knew != and <>...

Since I love both nitpicking and off-topics, let me digress telling you that Lua uses ~= .

That's like a fuzzy match or regex match in things like gcp log search

Yea I don’t get why people don’t just use != which is used in most programming languages…

Can’t ever be completely sure, but perhaps it’s fashionable nonconformism, I’ve seen it quite frequently lately, including the insane variant =|=