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by kbenson 2839 days ago
> There's only one language that I know of that's still in popular use and that likes weak typing.

As much as I wish it wasn't so, I believe PHP sees more activity currently than Perl, and it's also weakly typed.

Javascript itself is weakly typed as well, which is why we're all having this discussion.

I would say that two of the most popular languages (probably the two most popular new languages) of the last two decades have been weakly typed.
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sdegutis 2839 days ago
That's a fair point, but I think this article shows that weak typing in JS is actively avoided by most people. That's why the article is interesting in the first place. I don't know if PHP heavily relies on weak typing though, I haven't used it in 9-10 years. But JS doesn't rely on it. It's just there, and easily avoided.
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