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C syntax was never that great. It's basically mnemonic PDP-11 assembler with a few added data structures.

js is mutant C with dementia - hacked together over over a fortnight, full of inconsistencies and weird corners.

    console.log(1 + "2"); // "12"
    console.log(1 - "2"); // -1
    console.log(NaN === NaN); // false
    console.log(+0 === -0); // true

    const obj = {};
    console.log(obj.foo); // undefined, not an error
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NaN is a standardized dynamic languages datatype governed by IEEE 754, this is not something to complain about as its behavior is part of the official standard and for good reason, as outlined in the standard.
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Why dynamic? `NAN != NAN` is just as true in C.
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well as I understood it, it was implemented for languages without static data typing although I suppose you could implement it in other languages.

Also I suppose my memory could be pretty foggy as I don't think I've looked at the spec since about 2014.

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None of those examples are showing something you find wrong with the syntax
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