what is the difference between scripting and programming, and would a seasoned programmer rather use a regular programming language than a scripting language for scripts? the only usecase of scripting to me seems that the concepts are way simpler, but that shouldnt be much of an obstacle to someone with lots of experience in for example rust
@alina Far as I can tell, "scripting languages" just aren't a thing that exists, with the only possible exception being when the term is used to talk about the process of adding customized scripts to an existing application. Everything else is just a programming language, regardless of how it works under the hood. Dynamic or static, strongly or weakly typed, interpreted or JIT-compiled or AOT-compiled, it doesn't matter.
It's mostly used as a derogatory term in practice - either to bash a language someone personally doesn't like, or more often to insult programmers who don't meet some arbitrary standard of 'real programmer' (and that standard is usually toxic macho stuff).
@alina (Occasionally people try to define 'scripting language' but that definition never ends up being actually useful in any meaningful way, and usually makes incorrect assumptions about certain language properties 'belonging together')
