Axod may have overreached by saying "most languages". However, you overreach as well by saying "the minority" (though at least you add the qualifier "I'd expect".)

What Axod perhaps should have said is "most languages that support automatic type coercion."

We could have a flamewar all day about whether or not type coercion is a good or bad thing. And, actually, tumult's whole complaint could be summed up as type coercion is bad, and I don't get that object literals are different from string literals.

Many languages with type coercion, where objects can be converted to a string via a toString method of some sort, behave the same as Javascript. At most, like php, they log a warning or notice of some sort.

Personally, I prefer type coercion to throwing errors, and I prefer loose types to static types. Apparently, tumult doesn't, to the point of whining about the programming language that is the lingua franca of the web. To each his own.