[anthk]

Perl had an amazing Win32 support back in the day, and still does.

https://perldoc.perl.org/Win32

https://metacpan.org/search?size=20&q=win32

RAS, OLE, COM, ODBC. Perl did magick on NT/2K/XP.

[HeckFeck]

And it was (may still be) used in the Windows build environment!

[singingfish]

VMS too!