Which Scripting Language Has Saved You the Most Time.

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David2345

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Aug 2, 2026

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• Yesterday at 10:37 PM

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Automation has become an important part of many online businesses and development workflows.

For those who regularly write scripts, which language has had the biggest impact on your productivity—Python, JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash, PHP, or something else?

I'm interested in hearing what you use most often and why.

 

SEOCodeLab

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Jun 18, 2012

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• Yesterday at 10:39 PM

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Python, easy, fast and has a huge third party librarees

 

retsuki

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Aug 17, 2023

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• Yesterday at 11:09 PM

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PY for me as well, plenty of ready made libs to work with and an active community behind it if you need to brainstorm.

 

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tomford1

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• Yesterday at 11:27 PM

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David2345 said:

Automation has become an important part of many online businesses and development workflows.

For those who regularly write scripts, which language has had the biggest impact on your productivity—Python, JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash, PHP, or something else?

I'm interested in hearing what you use most often and why.

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Python is easy rather than java,bash,php.

 

XSMMDoctor

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Jun 7, 2026

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• Today at 1:01 AM

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Python is definitely the easiest to get going with like @SEOCodeLab said because of the libraries, but honestly nodejs is where it is at if you are doing heavy browser automation. playwright and puppeteer just run circles around selenium imo. plus if you are already building web apps it is nice to just stick to one stack. still use bash for quick cron jobs on the VPS though.

 

Bonvi

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I mean, it depends on what you want to do, but for automation people generally use python and it's not wrong.