It is because the ECMAScript type system is a real WTF. I always found the type system of PHP questionable, especially the useless and bug provoking unity betw

It is because the ECMAScript type system is a real WTF. I always found the type system of PHP questionable, especially the useless and bug provoking unity between arrays and hash tables. However, ECMAScript provides such mis-design at an even lower level of the language. Nevertheless, I still like working with ECMAScript because at least it has proper closures.