summary: easy to learn, for some odd reason still heavily used, its very slow..like literary c++ is up to 100 times faster
For people using it to test applications and do automatic testing you don’t wanna write things in C++ and this is why it’s heavily used. people use what’s easy to use and gets the job done
It’s also the language used to write plug-ins for my favorite editor, sublime text. It isn’t that slow and it’s extremely useful and that’s why it’s popular.
That said, I wouldn’t use it to write a whole application
but think of it this way, it’s a tool in your toolbox. You don’t always want to use a hammer. you want to use other tools when they fit the job