Maybe it is not terribly accurate. At work, we jokingly describe javascript as C++ without all the features, because most of the developers at my work have a C+

Maybe it is not terribly accurate. At work, we jokingly describe javascript as C++ without all the features, because most of the developers at my work have a C++ background. My point, even if it was not clear, was that javascript is a simple scripting language. It doesn't need a type system to be useful.