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My point is that "highly configurable and scriptable environment" is a much higher floor than other languages have. You don't need that to be productive in most languages; there are people who write serious code in nano or even notepad!

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And what objective metric is there that prevents it from working in java? Because there are, in fact, people that write java in notepad, probably much more than those who write rust and go and swift there, combined.