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Ideas on scripting languages
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Thoughts on scripting languages

JS has the "flavor" of a scripting language.

Very weak type system, beginner-friendly but finicky to work with, and has the simplicity for simple tasks. It's the language anyone can write in with a little experience, the language that's most portable for KOTHs. Many rules can be bent and still work.

Python has the flavor of a normal language but is good for scripting.

It's simple for both simple and complex tasks. It has the libraries to work out-of-the-box. (e.g. webbrowser) It encourages simplicity. Most scripting languages don't allow you to do complex tasks.

Bash

Bash, like JS, has the quirks of weirdness (if [ a ] is different from if [a]!?). Because it is a shell, every terminal command is a library. Like Python, it has the tools needed.

Both langauges are interpreted (classic scripting) and have JIT compilers available to speed them up.

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