Reminder that "scripting languages" are not a thing that exists outside of a game development / macro context, and people using it in programming discourse (almost always in bad faith) are typically either necrocomputing enthusiasts or your typical toxic-masculinity C bros, or both
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(Basically it's the techbro equivalent of a dogwhistle, a derogatory term for "not a Real Man programming language")
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@joepie91 *points at Intel assembly* scripting language
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@ytvwld This is, in all seriousness, an excellent way to break the brain of these folks
To be clear, this doesn't mean that legitimate discussion cannot be had about the relative merits of some programming languages vs. others, but when someone tries to define that specifically along the axis of "scripting vs. programming language", that's incredibly sus