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JS is weird - a fun and tricky JavaScript quiz

JavaScript is a great programming language, but thanks to the fact that its initial release was built in only ten days back in 1995, coupled with the fact that JS is backward-compatible, it’s also a bit weird. It doesn’t always behave the way you might think. In this quiz, you’ll be shown 25 quirky expressions and will have to guess the output. Even if you’re a JS developer, most of this syntax is probably, and hopefully, not something you use in your daily life.

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