That is true, but most languages do work on all of those things, e.g. For parts of the D ecosystem we have moved over to build scripts actually written in D, and they almost always work even though the makefiles and bash scripts are sometimes completely fucked whenever I fiddle with my computer. The best part is with the scripts in a real programming language (Python is good enough too), you can actually read them and show how they work to people coming from visual studio who can't read bash or make