typeof null === 'object' // true Brendan Eich has elaborated on why the decision was made, whether it was a good one or not - null is an empty object pointer.

typeof null === 'object' // true Brendan Eich has elaborated on why the decision was made, whether it was a good one or not - null is an empty object pointer. Idiomatically, I'd argue that `null` shouldn't exist in Javascript, since undefined is the global "default empty" value.