True, but all of those languages are very heavy-handed and have ancient and arcane build-tools and package management ( If they have it at all )

For me, I was looking for a language that is appropriate for both scripting and slightly larger web application projects.

Scripting / Web application development is NOT a great use case for C/++, and I feel Java is a bit heavy handed to be used for a scripting language.

I tried out Golang but did not end up liking the language.