Why is the result of ('b'+'a'+ + 'a' +'a').toLowerCase() 'banana'?

[azhenley]

https://stackoverflow.com/q/57456188/938695

[olooney]

If you like this kind of thing, you might enjoy "WTF, JS?"

https://github.com/denysdovhan/wtfjs

Or it's slightly older brother "WTF, Python?"

https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython

[jgtrosh → olooney]

See also Wat from 2012:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

[fallingfrog]

Wow JavaScript is truly a cursed language

[chupa-chups]

3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20689323

[joemaffei]

Because ’a’