[16s]

This is the same reason I re-wrote a lot of my Python code in C++ many years ago. Distributing one self-contained, statically linked executable just works and even the most clueless user can download and run it.

But I still use a lot of Python and I'm sure this guy still uses a lot of Ruby. Everything has its place.

[Touche]

I feel the same way, but I'm not willing to go to an inelegant language to achieve it. So I write cli applications in Lua with a thin C wrapper.

[16s]

"Inelegant" is really a matter of opinion.