We’ve also added Lua, as it made the top 20 in TIOBE (as of 2022) and it is both memory safe and a scripting ... re not exactly examples of what kids (or anyone, really?) would be playing these days.

JavaScript is a wildly popular interpreted scripting language that was the most in-demand language of 2023, with 29% of job offers requiring programming ... It’s a classic example of a virtuous ...

As the pair recall, JavaScript was originally conceived of as a "Java side-kick scripting language" where "all sophisticated programming tasks would be done using Java" thanks to Java applets.