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You are confusing dynamic/static vs strong/weak typing.

I think python & ruby are considered strongly typed, whereas javascript is weakly typed. strong/weak usually refers to implicit conversion or not.

Yeah this strikes me as the usual "language X sucks, because dynamic languages suck".

Not really, scripting has it's good uses. It's just wrong to use scripts to replace programming languages for all tasks.

A "scripting language" is a programming language. "Scripting" is a completely useless description, and is usually used to stoke a flamewar.