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Oh no, it's even documented on MDN:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/parseInt#using_parseint
Every time I have to write code in jabbascript I think "can't be that hard" but then I stumble across some weird behavior like this and I first think "must be a bug somewhere in my code" but no. After some research it always turns out it's actually a documented "feature(?)".
I have no idea why this shitty language is so popular and the web standard.
jabbascript
Should becomes standard
Sweet Flying Spaghetti Monster, that's horrible. I'm guessing the reason is to keep the truth value equivalent when casting to boolean, but there has to be a more elegant way....
Might be, but this is also a decent explanation: https://lemmy.ml/post/464637/comment/272066