alt Hacker NewsMy understanding of weak typing is about allowing automatic type conversion. “3” + 1 === “31”, 1 + “3” === 4. Strong typing doesn’t auto convert.
My understanding of weak typing is about allowing automatic type conversion. “3” + 1 === “31”, 1 + “3” === 4. Strong typing doesn’t auto convert.
Pretty much. There's probably better examples but using some of what's come up here so far: python is strong+dynamic, javascript is weak+dynamic, typescript is weak+static*, java is strong+static.
* Maybe. Not quite sure about "weak" for this one, but I think it makes sense because you can just lie to typescript and then after compilation it just runs as javascript.