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> I really wish the industry settled on terms for this stuff

I've pretty consistently heard "strong typing" to mean that the language avoids coercing between types, and "static typing" to mean that types are known at compile time. So JS and Python are both dynamic typed, but Python is (more) strongly typed and JS is (more) weakly typed.

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Yes, I've always understood this to be the correct terminology, but unfortunately in informal discussion among non-academically inclined software people, people use the terms wrong more often than they use them right. You get lots of people saying C is strongly typed (it certainly is not) and something like Scheme is weakly typed (it certainly is not).

If you're really want a fun time, try having a conversation about "duck typing" some time... it was around the time that term became a thing that I realized no one seems to agree on what all these terms mean.

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