> all projects trend towards becoming an unholy mess as they grow large, so being able to accomplish a goal in significantly fewer lines of code has tangible benefits
This is a really good point that I didn't realize before - sure, languages like bash and Lua and Tcl might scale very poorly to large codebases, but because they're more expressive than some other languages (coughjavacough), you might be able to implement the functionality you need without needing a large codebase in the first place.
This is a really good point that I didn't realize before - sure, languages like bash and Lua and Tcl might scale very poorly to large codebases, but because they're more expressive than some other languages (coughjavacough), you might be able to implement the functionality you need without needing a large codebase in the first place.