The big thing for me in this regard is not worrying about dependencies (in a lot of cases). With Rust, when someone asks me for a script that does X, I can comp

The big thing for me in this regard is not worrying about dependencies (in a lot of cases). With Rust, when someone asks me for a script that does X, I can compile and ship a binary and they run it end of story. With python, I say "ok, now install python version whatever, then install pip, and then pip install all this stuff, and finally run my script"