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		tlrobinson on June 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, inc... It seems like there’s an opportunity for a lightweight statically-linked scripting language. Something between Go and Python.

rurban on June 6, 2019 [–]

The standard toolkit for this is perl. It's used in automake, most gnu utils and git. python and ruby bring nothing new to the table, besides being newbie friendlier.

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