I've been using IRC for over 15 years without scripting anything... I wouldn't call a client "useless" without scripting support.

But you can extend it. I know that recently vim has added python support, but people used vim script to do amazing things, and look at the OS we know as emacs.

> recently vim has added python support

Sorry if this makes you feel old, but that's a literal decade ago.

git's also over a decade old :(

Man, I _am_ old.

You could, you know... learn some perl?

Devs these days, so spoiled