[viraptor]

For me it's basically the language you choose when you want to write new project, but don't want it to explode with type error / null deref at runtime and on the other hand you don't want to deal with C segfaulting and writing all the manual memory management yourself.

Also potentially if you want speed closer to C than interpreted script, and don't mind spending a bit more time up front. (offset by the time you don't spend debugging an inexplicable crash later on)