[electroly]

I have a C++ project where the documentation is generated using a script that I wrote in C++. Woof. I didn't want to add a compile-time dependency on another programming language, but C++ is rough as a scripting language. If my script needs were any more complex, I'd be thinking hard about how bad a compile-time dependency on Python really is.

[kyllo]

I'm not sure I've even seen a recent, large C++ project that didn't depend on Python or some other external scripting language just to build it, so it's kind of hard to imagine using C++ itself to solve the problem that using C++ creates.

[MathMonkeyMan]

I worked with a guy in a C++ RPC team (think Envoy, but proprietary). He wrote the build tool that was used by our team, which maintained several fairly large C++ programs and libraries. He wrote it all in C++. He was of the opinion that most scripting tasks on the team could be accomplished with a small C++ program. It helped that we had a portable kitchen sink of libraries at our disposal, but he wasn't above using std::system to avoid the hassle.

[deckard1]

someone added a script written in Rust to our project. They compiled it for ARM. So only people on Macbooks can run the damn thing. Nice one Rust bro.