This is really interesting. As far as I know there are only two servers that power the majority of public instances and both of them have weak type systems.
About other languages that are weakly typed in "current use":
- JavaScript is still weakly typed as far as I am concerned, nothing prevents you from 0 == "" and get true value. - PHP is still weakly typed, with optional type hinting but still sometimes can bite you in the ass
Erlang + Dialyser can be read as quasi-static typing, but it is still strong one.
[1]: https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/index.jsp
We have two uses. 1. Web based per-page chat for all our logged in users, then using Candy+ejabberd/openfire, but now using a custom node socket based chat server. 2. Internal chat still on Openfire. Have thought of checking out Zulip/Mattermost et al.
Never tried Prosody, and feel that xmpp never got the client thing quite right.
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