The latest State of JavaScript survey confirms findings from previous editions: Developers like and want static typing for the super-popular programming language. What's more, they're more likely to ...

In a static type system, you have compiler-checked annotations of return types and such, but in a dynamic language the same knowledge still exists—it's just informal and stored in brains and ...

Many of the newer Web-oriented programming languages, such as PHP and JavaScript, do not have static typing, hence they are referred to as dynamically typed languages.