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Instead of trying to make it work, javascript could just say "error." Being untyped doesn't mean you can't have error messages.
This is fair enough from an idealistic view. In practice, you don't want your entire website to shit itself because of a potentially insignificant error.
I'd rather have my website shit itself than have silent difficult to find errors.
Use typescript