Considering C++ as scripting language makes companies have to pay more to high quality programmers and wait longer time for simple scripting.
You may want to consider Rust and Nim as C's superiors rather than C++. Both Rust and Nim are as speedy as C++. Rather than C++ with boost, they also have leaner and extensible syntax fpr specified purpose called DSL. For example, nim can prevent SQL injection from compile time.