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Nullish coalescing

Category

JavaScript

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 80)

Intent stage

Prepare to ship

Summary

Adds support for the 'nullish' operator to JS.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://tc39.github.io/proposal-nullish-coalescing/
• Firefox: In development
• Safari: In development
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=9547

Explainers: https://v8.dev/features/nullish-coalescing https://github.com/tc39/proposal-nullish-coalescing

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