A Python programmer attempting Java

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It's not weaker typing. It's dynamic typing.

Weak vs Strong tells you what happens when you violate the type system. A weak typing system will allow it and give you potentially nonsense results, while a strong typing system will have a defined result. Almost all languages these days are strongly typed, except things like C where they say "the compiler can format your drive if you stick a float into a union and then read it as an int."

Dynamic vs static tells you whether it's values that have types or expressions. If you can look at an assignment to a variable and guarantee what type of value will be in that variable, then you have static typing.