If you're not a scripter, new scripting features mean little to you.
That's completely wrong. They should be excited as well, because they are the ones that download snippets/addons/full scripts, that depend on those scripting features. They are the ones that we help day in day out on these forums. (Ok we help other scripters as well, but you get the point.)
mIRC wouldn't be what it is today without its scripting feature. How you can say new scripting features don't benefit people who don't script is beyond me.
I'm sure the people who use an !imdb or !google bot were very glad, although indirectly, that socket support was added to mIRC scripting. They wouldn't be able to use such bot without it.
