I mostly agree with the sentiment of this article but converting a bunch of shell, Awk and Perl into Python 3 is probably a good idea. It's not like Python is

I mostly agree with the sentiment of this article but converting a bunch of shell, Awk and Perl into Python 3 is probably a good idea. It's not like Python is some newfangled untested language. Making the build system portable and easy to use is really important for an Open-Source project.