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edit: I'm mostly wrong here.

Because "0" is false. In a logical world, a non-empty string being truthy is fine even if the value is "false". Javascript isn't logical.

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``` > if ("0") console.log("true");

true ```

Excuse me?

> In a logical world, a non-empty string being truthy is fine even if the value is "false". Javascript isn't logical.

You must hate our illogical world built on C, because it has the same behavior.

I did a `"0" == false` which returned true. I may need another cup of coffee before making claims.

Appealing to C - the land of undefined behavior - as a paragon of logic seems like a strange authority to reach for.

The point is that this is a well-defined (not pun intended) behavior that exists within C, C++, Python, Ruby and probably a handful more popular languages. This set pretty much constitutes like 70%(?) of mainstream languages. Yet only JS gets shit thrown its way in this thread.

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