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It's used in different ways. I think it's original meaning was writing a script for a program, which means specifying high level behaviors like a movie script. Game engines are written in a programming language and then expose a scripting language to build the game rules, control the characters, and so on. For the web, scripting ends up being the front end, because it's specifying the behavior of the web page, and it's high level on the software stack of the browser. Of course now frontend is very complex and not so much scripting... which does make me wonder why companies don't create their own frontend scripting language on top of typescript or javascript.