Well regardless of the goals or intent of its creators, it has found success as a general purpose language suited to a broad set of unrelated tasks. And in fact

Well regardless of the goals or intent of its creators, it has found success as a general purpose language suited to a broad set of unrelated tasks. And in fact that is exactly how it is being recommended here by the articles author: so within this context I don't think it makes sense to exclude these other languages. But even aside from that we were just talking about tooling at the moment.