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Re:Nil in Go is typed in theory and sort of untyped in practice by mirekrusin on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:28PM (#26652707)
Yeah, that one is funny

  > [] == []
  false
  > [] == ![]
  true
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Re:Nil in Go is typed in theory and sort of untyped in practice by mirekrusin on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:31PM (#26652746)
However typescript says:

  This condition will always return 'false' since the types 'never[]' and 'boolean' have no overlap.
...for `[] == ![]`. Which is ironic because it does return true, not false. However at least it flags an error!

I wonder how much of weirdness is wiped out by linters/ts/etc.

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