> I started coding in the early 2000s in mIRC Scripting. It felt like magic. With only a few lines I could add stuff to the context menus, write auto responses, etc.

You could write entire projects in mIRC, there was more or less nothing you could not do.

You can write custom UIs, use raw TCP/UPP sockets.. you could write mIRC in mIRC.

It was in its time quite empowering. Very few languages were mature enough to truly compete with it for simplicity in it's time (even Visual Basic, which would win out on UI, but lose on sockets etc)