You're a geek.

I'm like that because:

• I need a hobby
• weird history with programming, but never actually liked any programming language enough to have a real project.
• now I found a niche language that I like but so far it's just not where I want get started (one example, still no bindings for Godot 4)
• Ray almost tricked me into making a framework for a framework but I saw right through that
• personal issues

=Nim

maybe, on off-chance, you fall under the term script monkey?

it's like someone who understands well enough to run things but not grok through.

just remembered stumbling on it while reading some sci-fi.

Second only to the unsung hero that didn't make it to the image, CSS

What language is that one?

It’s worth going hungry in the dark. Lawyer up and hit the gym. JS doesn’t deserve you.

You just described my life. JS is hell.

You're a nerd for knowing that.

Scripting languages are for popular kids and jocks.

I really enjoyed using MATLAB in school and it really helped with some of my graduate stuff. What scummy stuff are they up to? Any alternatives you'd recommend?

Is that an OCaml reference/joke?

We're old nerds.

Have you ever been to PowerShell Summit? It's the only nerd conference I've ever attended where only about half the attendees actually realized they are nerds at a nerd conference. I love the vibe. It's got style and pizzazz.

That said, the added entry for PowerShell would still be: "You are a nerd."

My favorite programming language is VBA

Do you get a heart attack every time you need to write to a database, effectively causing a side-effect? Only real Haskell developers do.

I can help with that one

"You are a nerd"

OP does not know math people are cooler than engineers and physicists.

Believe it or not: nerd

You are a nerd

Matlab

There's a programming language for that

Perl: You're an old nerd who remembers before Python was a thing, or else a nerd who really likes funky syntax and symbols everywhere and PHP just wasn't right for you.

Raku: You're an old nerd who remembers before Python took over from your former beloved Perl and instead of opting for simpler, cleaner syntax, you decided that being able to go the other way entirely was absolutely for you, or else you're a nerd who likes really, really funky syntax and Python, PHP and even Perl seem too much like kids toys.

Ada: You're an old nerd who was taught it at some college or other or else you're an engineer writing mission critical systems and this is the language everything is written in and no-one will switch to anything else.

BASIC: You're an old nerd (you might be sensing a theme here) who taught themselves programming at some point in the '70s, '80s or '90s and you'll get around to learning another language some day, but right now this interpreter you found online that runs in a console window suits you just fine.

Shell scripting: You're a nerd who really ought to rewrite some of those unwieldy beasts in something else at some point but you've learned it this way and don't have time for anything else right now. Time for another hack.

Powershell: You're a nerd who's found something that "really makes sense, you know?"

COBOL: See Ada but exchange "mission critical" for "banking".

Prolog: You are a nerd who plays Towers of Hanoi in their head for fun.

Haskell: You are a nerd whose flying saucer is a glass dome followed by a function that describes the rest of it, which may or may not be the same function that described the glass dome in the first place.

Lisp: You are a nerd for whom parentheses make you feel warm and fuzzy, if not other feelings that cannot be spoken of in polite company. If you like Emacs, you like Emacs.