I tend to write a lot of bash, partially for masochistic reasons, but I would probably choose Node over Python in 2021 for basic dev tooling scripts. Setting up

I tend to write a lot of bash, partially for masochistic reasons, but I would probably choose Node over Python in 2021 for basic dev tooling scripts. Setting up a node environment with nvm can be done in a few lines of code, and it’s pretty reliable across platforms. Python is just too difficult to support consistently. Really you should pick whatever you currently have in your codebase. We happen to have both Python and Node, with the languages generally being developed separately by different devs. So we’ve got tools in both, but a Node developer is unlikely to ever need/use the Python tools (although they can all run in Docker anyway). What annoys me a bit is that pre-commit requires a Python env to bootstrap itself, but it can install nvm without any fuss.