Easy installation – WAMP
Good performance
Easy deployment
Simple syntax
Closest competitor is Ruby
Javascript – Browser and IOT Scripting
Simple
Great performance
Advanced closures and less OO
Good async support
Streams and observables
Good package manager
Closest competitor is TS
Lua – Game Scripting
Simple language
Easy to bind to an existing library
Python – General Purpose Scripting
Strong C / C++ integration
Took over the academia
Simple
C – Unix
Took over the academia
Memory model for low level devices
Small
C++ – Desktop applications
Took over the academia
High performance
Go – Cloud
Simple
High performance
Concurrency model
Upper / Lowercase instead of public private
Slices
Modules from github
Closest competitors – Erlang, Clojure
Obj-C, Swift, Java, C#
Platform dependence
Good debugger and IDE support
GC with good performance
COBOL ABAP – SAP scripting
Great database integration
Closest competitors – Salesforce, Enterprise Java
SQL and Excel – Databases
Matlab – Simulations
Closest competitors – Mathematica, Lisp