[dragonwriter]

What it really seems like the issue is is:

1. Scripts should be maintained and tested, and

2. The language used for scripts necessarily is and should be treated as a project language, and the appropriateness of that choice should have all the factors that go into choosing a langauge for any other purpose, including the impact on complexity if it isn't the main language and fitness for purpose and any additional dev platform, tooling, etc., constraints it imposes, but...

This doesn't imply scripts should be in the main project language, any more than it is generally the case that projects must be monolingual.

[l0b0]

Much more nuanced, thank you! For one thing, you need a language to bootstrap your environment in dev envs and CI. You wouldn't want to write a Python script which has to support a bunch of minor versions (with vastly different capabilities) just to run `poetry install`.

[Shawnj2]

If you’re using a C++ project saying that all of your scripts related to that project must also be in C++ when Python would do fine is ridiculous. You should just pick a reasonable language