Lonely programmer detective uncovers the Mozilla JavaScript coercion conspiracy

Minus the writing style, explanation of a 'wat' in JS which turns out to be the equivalent of boxing in Java/C# (behavior which looks odd and comes from cases where the operations involved convert a primitive type to an instance of its wrapper object type and back again).

The joke seems to be that the docs are exactly where you would expect to find this info.

Similarly, there is a String object for string values as well... Sometimes the behavior can seem weird, but for the most part, it works.

The author of that answer does not actually think there is a conspiracy. He has written a detailed explanation of what is happening in the form of a lighthearted parody of a hard boiled detective thriller [1]. It's witty.

Someone who got it was Seth, who left the comment referencing the famous line from the noir thriller 'Chinatown' [2].

[1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HardboiledDetecti...

[2] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-the-line-Forget...