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> "Strongly typed" is not a well defined term

True. But it has boundaries. Strongly typed cannot be used for langs with implicit nulls. You need to do better than stock C, C++, Java or Go to be able to use the term.

Rust, Elm, Haskell, Kotlin and OCaml come to mind.




No, that's also entirely subjective. You feel that way, others don't.


> True. But it has boundaries. Strongly typed cannot be used for langs with implicit nulls. You need to do better than stock C, C++, Java or Go to be able to use the term.

That's, frankly, an insane boundary.

According to you, all mainstream languages are untyped? Seriously?




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