Why do they even exist? Whatever advantage they claim to give is more than offset by runtime unpreictability caused by typos and bad design that's not picked up at compile time.
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Anonymous2019-01-27 15:36
>>1 Weakly typed is a term used by people who have no clue about language design and type theory, in addition of not having a definition that makes sense. A better term would be "crappy languages".
In any case, these languages are popular because shitty things tend to be popular in general. Consider Java and Islam for example.