Why is there no logical xor in JavaScript?

Question

Why is there no logical xor in JavaScript?

Answer 1

there is... sort of:

if( foo ? !bar : bar ) {
  ...
}

or easier to read:

if( ( foo && !bar ) || ( !foo && bar ) ) {
  ...
}

why? dunno.

because javascript developers thought it would be unnecessary as it can be expressed by other, already implemented, logical operators.

you could as well just have gon with nand and thats it, you can impress every other possible logical operation from that.

i personally think it has historical reasons that drive from c-based syntax languages, where to my knowledge xor is not present or at least exremely uncommon.