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So, I looked into this because I was curious. The types themselves are in fact primitives and immutable, however, as noted in MDN:
That's why Primitives are immutable - instead of working on them directly, we're working on a copy, without affecting the original.
When we say let string = "some string", the "some string" portion is a primitive, however, that variable is wrapped in a String class, which does have methods.
So, I looked into this because I was curious. The types themselves are in fact primitives and immutable, however, as noted in MDN:
When we say
let string = "some string", the "some string" portion is a primitive, however, that variable is wrapped in a String class, which does have methods.Reference: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/G...
Thank you for pointing that out and making me dig deeper!