What are considered falsey values is different in various programming language.
In Ruby, falsey values are false and nil.
In JavaScript, there are more that two: false, 0, -0, 0n, "", null, undefined, and NaN.
On the other hand, language like Java (so-called “strongly typed” language) don’t have truthy and falsey. true evaluates to true, false evaluates to false and everything else used in a Boolean context will cause the compiler or interpreter to yell at you.
This is why the distinction between Boolean values and truthy/falsey is important: there is nothing inherent that makes nil or 0 a falsey. It’s a design choice by the programming language creators and maintainers (although it would be surprising if a language considered 42 a falsey).