How standard is Python on Unix machines nowadays? I’m guessing some relatively recent version of Python 2 is standard on many machines.
Not sure how many would prefer it, but I’ve always wondered if retiring as a shell language would be a good home for Python. Not sure how well it’d work as a shell without some major changes, but it feels like something could have been done to get to a sweet spot and we could have slowly moved beyond bash to something nicer …?