[tl]

That's a very Windows-centric view of the world. Macs are increasing popular in education and come with Python pre-installed. Linux comes with Python pre-installed. iOS / Android require installing an app to do local programming either way, and I'd argue the Python writing apps are better than their javascript writing apps.

Microsoft should fix the "bug" that its operating system is missing interpreters for Perl, Python, etc... (Oddly enough, this list also includes javascript!)

[ksherlock]

Microsoft includes VBScript and JScript interpreters -- WScript and CScript. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Script_Host

[meekins]

Windows actually has a Javascript (well, the JScript dialect of ECMAScript) interpreter out of the box in the form of Windows Script Host. It also supports VBScript. You can play with it on the command line using the cscript command.

[PeCaN]

The most interesting part is that you can script applications with it. I recall writing a script that played Google's running game during the Olympics a while back when I was learning to program.

[rodgerd]

> That's a very Windows-centric view of the world.

Heaven forbid we pander to 80-90% of the market.