The logical operators in C always evaluate to boolean values. In C, the int 1 represents true and the int 0 represents false. That's the reason why both the expressions, "All" && 1 and "All" || 1, evaluate to 1. Both of them are logically true. For clarification, consider the following program.
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("%d
", 20 && 10); // 1
printf("%d
", 20 || 10); // 1
return 0;
}
In the above program, the expressions 20 && 10 and 20 || 10 still evaluate to 1 even though there is no 1 in those expressions. This makes sense because both those expressions are logically true. Hence, they evaluate to 1 which is equivalent to true in JavaScript.
If JavaScript behaved the way C did then the expressions "All" && 10 and "All" || 10 would evaluate to the boolean value true. However, that's not the way the logical operators behave in JavaScript. That's not to say that they are buggy.
Values in JavaScript have a notion of truthiness and falsity. For example, the values true, "All", 10, [10, 20], { foo: 10 }, and x => 2 * x are all truthy. On the other hand, the values false, "", 0, undefined, and null are falsy.
The logical operators of JavaScript don't always evaluate to boolean values like C does. Instead, they evaluate to one of their operands. The && operator evaluates to its left operand if it's falsy. Otherwise, it evaluates to the right operand. Similarly, the || operator evaluates to its left operand if it's truthy. Otherwise, it evaluates to the right operand.
Now, the value "All" is truthy. Hence, "All" && 1 evaluates to the right operand (i.e. 1) whereas "All" || 1 evaluates to the left operand (i.e. "All"). Notice that both 1 and "All" are truthy values, which means that they are equivalent to 1 (which represents truthiness) in C.
Hence, no. JavaScript is not buggy.
