What language do you recommend instead for the type of small tasks I write python to solve? Needs to have a good image manipulation library, tools for manipulating binary data and converting it to normal types, good list comprehension tools, the ability to easily be a web client or server and a good REPL
It's JavaScript (TypeScript) that ships as a single executable with lots of stuff in it like bundler, compiler, postgres client, etc. I use it for scripting, e.g., seed database, etc.