VBS is basically VBA without any of the typing/early binding, i.e. everything is a Variant.

I seem to recall a couple of other pesky nuances.

One thing I thought was a win decades ago in the ASP/pre-jQuery days was being able to tell where the code would execute based upon language.vVBSsript on the server; JS in the browser.

JS seems like an out-of-body experience as it is.