You can pretty much ignore mostly anyone most of the time who screeches at you to use triple equals (strict equality comparison) instead of regular ol' "==" (abstract equality comparison). It's one of modern programming's dumbest, least well-founded memes, resulting in such brilliant advice as insisting during code review that
typeof(foo) == 'string'
be changed to
typeof(foo) === 'string'
because the latter is "safer". Anyone saying—anyone—this is guaranteed not to know what the hell they're talking about—and shouldn't be in a position where they're pretending that they do. It's unjustifiable and pure cargo cultism.
I have missed the part of the discussion that contains an imperative for folks to debate the resolution of whether JS is a "well designed language"—and not about JS's equality comparisons per se and whether it's still usable or not despite that. These:
> JavaScript equals is an abomination, which to me seems like a larger issue, and people use it just fine.
