Let's not forget interoperability. Scripting languages are nice because you can throw some stuff together on the fly. Therefore you need either a rich standard

Let's not forget interoperability. Scripting languages are nice because you can throw some stuff together on the fly. Therefore you need either a rich standard library or a package ecosystem. With some languages you grow that in time, but I bet you could cheat and interoperate with a different language's packages. Call me lazy but I don't want to use a scripting language where I have to write my own server, json parser, JWT encoder, SQLite interface...