JavaScript: The Curious Case of null &gt;= 0
This being a result of JavaScript&#x27;s weapons grade weak-typing, I&#x27;ve always wondered of what benefit weak typing actually brings, once dynamic typing is assumed, over strong typing as in python&#x2F;Ruby. Or at least strong<i>er</i> typing. Reasonable coercion from 11434 -&gt; &quot;11434&quot; is one thing, but why not throw an exception when anything more ambiguous is encountered? It would seem even for an absolute newcomer to programming, or someone experienced who wants to rapidly prototype, the bugs resulting from this hidden coercion complexity outweigh any gains in productivity. Especially considering the alternative is simply a set of special unambiguous casting functions that could be easily looked up.