Would javascript and similar scripting languages benefit from being strongly typed?

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Published on 2009-08-11T23:33:06Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 15:21 UTC
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Just had my mind going today. I spent some time in IE debug mode, browsing the web as usual, and oh boy do I see many errors :) Most of these errors are because some value are of a different type than expected (at least as far as I interpret the error messages).

What are the reasons JavaScript and similar scripting languages aren't strongly typed? Is it just to make the languages "easier" to understand and more accessable, or is the lack of a "compile-time" the real problem?

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