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...but why? This looks like it would never be expected behavior. Like a bug in the implementation, which can simply be fixed.
Oh no, it's even documented on MDN:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/parseInt#using_parseint
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