Incidentally these are all languages that come preinstalled out of the box on Debian. [1] So that leads me to suspect this person might be trying to develop something in extremis, with zero connection to the internet whatsoever and zero tools except what comes preinstalled on a typical Linux box.

[1]: https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/what-programming-languages...

I saw that but it wasn't explicitly stated that's why I asked.