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The argument over static and dynamic typing is so boring at this point. It's semi-intellectual "bike shedding". Practically speaking it doesn't make much difference one way or the other.

I wish the industry as a whole would get over it and focus on bigger issues.

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It matters a lot! The fact that ObjC, Java, and JS have dynamic type system is what enables iOS, Android, and web browsers to be revved independently from the apps that use them. This is a key feature that languages without dynamic types cannot provide.

JS is the only one of those that has dynamic typing, at least by the conventional meaning of the term.

Do you mean it's the only one without static types? All three are dynamically typed to some degree. For example, in ObjC, messages dispatch on the dynamic type of the object.

Both Objective-C and Java are statically and strongly typed. What you're thinking about is probably a runtime-reflection mechanism. The JVM, java's host is capable of supporting dynamic languages through 'invokevirtual' but it doesn't make java dynamically typed.

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