Also I really like Python stdlib for those kinda of throwaway scripts. While `cargo` is a far better tool than `pip` for dealing with dependencies, if you don't need to dependencies at all it is even easier, and most times when using Python I don't really need to install any third party libraries even when doing non-trivial stuff (i.e.: sometime ago I did a script that scrapped a page for a download link for some APK and sideloaded it to my Android smartphone).

Someone also said the REPL, and while the REPL in Python is not as powerful as, i.e.: Clojure, it is still something that feels essential for a exploratory workflow that is the scripts case. Testing is not the same, it is much slower to interact, specially when you just want to check a hypothesis (also, most scripts I don't want to write tests, they will probably break anyway in a few months like the example of web scrapping I said above).