Rust is strongly typed, it won't let you add or compare two values of different datatypes, even if they're both integers. For example you can't add a `u8`(byte)

Rust is strongly typed, it won't let you add or compare two values of different datatypes, even if they're both integers. For example you can't add a `u8`(byte) and a `i64`(long int) without casting. Meanwhile Python, JS and many other weakly typed languages will happily add an integer and a float, maybe even a string and a number without complaints. The advantage of the former are more rigorous compile-time checks, which might catch bugs where you added/compared the wrong values. But of course it's a bit more cumbersome especially if you're not used to it. I personally prefer it, I've had numerous cases where my Python script crashed 10 minutes into some data processing because it realised I tried to add two incompatible values.