[pmontra]

Python (and Ruby) are dynamically typed and strong typed. They are two different things. Strong typed doesn't mean that you can't do this

  a = "a"
  a = 1

That's dynamic typing. Strong typing means only that

  a = "a" + 1

fails.

More about that at https://en.hexlet.io/courses/intro_to_programming/lessons/ty...

JavaScript and PHP and Perl automatically cast to a reasonable value with all the advantages and pitfalls.

[dorgo]

>Strong typing means only that

> a = "a" + 1

>fails.

String a = "a" + 1; works in Java. So Java is not strongly typed?

[angus_gh]

In some ways yes, Java is not so strongly typed; a statically-typed language can be weakly typed.

See C where ints, pointers, floats, and bools can almost all coerce into each other, such that the compiler will allow you to use arithmetic/logic operators with most different types, whether you meant to or not.

[sah2ed]

That’s because the language designers overloaded the arithmetic operator (+) to perform string concatenation when the operands can be cast as Strings.

Without overloading the + operator, string concatenation which is a common operation, would have been unnecessarily verbose. Your example without the + operator would look like below:

   String a = new String(“a”).concat(1); // String object concat
   String a = “a”.concat(1);             // String literal concat

[jakear]

The same could be said of JS but for some reason it gets shit but Java gets off Scott-free.

[zapzupnz]

Java doesn't get off scot-free for anything; nobody likes it, they just use it because they must.

Java just happens to be less prominent in tech media right now since JS on the server is the new(-ish) hotness. There's still plenty of dislike for it, but really, all that needed saying about it happened long before now.