Scripting doesn’t have anything to do with it, Ruby and Python have bootstrapping time that I find unacceptable as well as Erlang’s / Elixir’s. They all need time to get going.
For scripting I use bash / zsh if it’s something quick / one-off, or reach for Golang if I suspect I’ll use the tool regularly and need logic that bash / zsh make difficult to code (and sadly they have a lot of foot guns).
It’s “per se” btw.
Many of us would wet their pants if the BEAM has CLI parameters that would allow it to boot much faster (maybe at the cost of initializing apps slower? no idea), trust me. There was a discussion some months ago about it and there were various options listed even by core Erlang maintainers but none of them truly helped.
