[agos]

if you abuse the type system enough, most languages will have weaker typing.

"the language" is not enough per se, you have to use the tools it gives you to gain some advantage: those projects were clearly actively avoiding strong typing, for whatever reason

[dartos]

In js land some packages don’t have strong types or, worse, wrong handmade types. ‘as unknown as any’ is kind of needed in those cases.