[Scripting]

8 hours ago, fde101 said:

The whole indentation-as-syntax thing Python has going on reminds me of FORTRAN 77 in which you would make a comment by putting the letter "C" in column 1, columns 2-5 were for labels, etc...

I know there are those who love it, but to go back to that now that we have moved on from punched cards feels programmer-hostile to me and kind of turned me off to that language.

I really don't understand this comparison with Python and Fortran that I come across a lot. Python doesn't restrict where you indent to - the indentation (1 space, 4 spaces, 8 spaces, 1 tab whatever) just marks a block - if things line up they are in the same block. It's no more arbritary than having to use '{' and '}' in C/C++/JS or "begin"/"end" in other languages. Not really a lot like punch-cards (and yes I remember those and programming in Fortran et al.). I've found that beginners find it easier than having to remember to use '{' and '}' and the inconsistencies in C/C++ about where you use braces but YMMV on that. I work as a freelance developer and most C/C++ I see uses Allman (except in the Linux Kernel where it's K&R) and every virtually customer that I work at has coding guidelines for JS/C/C++/C# etc.that enforce a house style - I don't find any of these programmer-hostile, it's just another set of rules to follow (or break ).

Having said all that - I'd be quite happy for any generic scripting language to appear in the Affinity suite  - Javascript, Python or whatever;  there are advantages and disadvantages to all scripting languages.