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When it comes to infra, someone's preferred language may not always be available. Infra and devops is more about plumbing, and plumbing gets messy.

It can go the other way as well. tcl was originally conceived as an embeddable scripting language that can drive GUI applications, and has been very successful in that use-case. It has a few flaws, but I would have preferred it to been embedded in the browser instead of making up Javascript back in the day.