I don't know. Isn't Python still viewed as a mess now? I was thinking of taking the time to learn it as the best way to write cross-platform utilities, but encountered a lot of negative sentiment about its ecosystem. And all the environment managers you seem to need for it are a turn-off.

Granted, this is coming from a relative noob who read and followed a couple of "how to set up Python properly" articles and that's about it. But I pretty much decided to spend my time on JavaScript, despite its cumbersomeness for implementing simple utilities.

It's vastly improved now. With uv, many times you can download a new utility off GitHub and run it with `uv run foo.py`, including fetching its dependencies.