Feels like it could be one of those facebook posts to test "smart" people. Only the top 1% of people can answer this simple math question: "11" + 2 * 2 - 3

javascript is to web developers what powerpoint is to sales people

If you're consciously and intentionally using JavaScript like that, I don't want to be friends with you.

It's because + is two different operators and overloads based on the type to the left, while - is only a numeric operator and coerces left and right operands to numeric. But frankly if you're still using + for math or string concatenation in 2025, you're doing it wrong.

Oh we've hit an issue that's solved by another language or we could make another framework