What is the difference between "==" and "===" in JavaScript?

I usually ask this at interviews. So many 'senior' developers that don't know the difference

Answer: there is one more =

I got this one recently.

== will return true if you are comparing 1 to "1", === will not

One is scary, the other is sane.

@kaqqao I guess the big issue is that we live in a world where this is a reasonable question, which would imply that people fire away their applications like tommy guns without actually knowing shit.

== equals
=== very equals

@DLMousey and so `===` is faster and cleaner because it won't cast any of the operands before comparing.

..just wanted to add that.😪

This is part of the very foundation your javascript program. If you cannot answer this correctly, it has a high chance of being littered with bugs. So no, this is a damn good question.

I also was asked once what Ecmscript was. Upon answering, he was really impressed as most developers don't give a rats ass about the history of a language.

@MaxDeepfield the exact way I like to describe it! Well done sir.