JavaScript Type Coercion: The Language Of Surprises

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JavaScript Type Coercion: The Language Of Surprises

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The eternal JavaScript type coercion strikes again! In the first panel, someone proudly declares JavaScript as their favorite language. But the punchline reveals why developers have a love-hate relationship with it—when you add 1 to the string "11", JavaScript helpfully concatenates them into "111" instead of doing math. Yet when you subtract 1 from "11", it suddenly decides to convert the string to a number and returns 10. This inconsistent type handling is why senior devs develop eye twitches whenever someone mentions JavaScript. It's like having a calculator that sometimes decides to spell out numbers in interpretive dance.

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