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2 years agoWhat? The previous comment said it’s “downright impossible to learn” which is nonsense.
|| means “Evaluate and use the left operand, unless it’s falsy, in which case evaluate and use the right operand instead”
?? means “Evaluate and use the left operand, unless it’s nullish, in which case evaluate and use the right operand instead”
They’re the same thing except for which values fall through to the second operand
Arguably “we can just put it in docker, and create an auto scaling microservice with a load balancer, behind a CDN for avg request latency” fits this group too. The hoops I have to jump through to get a good user experience on top of our shitty PHP backend are unreal