The barrier to entry is way lower, way more developers will only learn scripting languages in their careers. A greater percentage of the projects who can succee

The barrier to entry is way lower, way more developers will only learn scripting languages in their careers. A greater percentage of the projects who can succeed as a product will be using scripting languages. Especially considering performance is often not crucial, as long as it's fast enough: worst case scenario, you just throw more servers at it. The cost of hosting is often a small part of your budget compared to developers time (unless you're using AWS or developers from third world countries).