I thought of conda after I made the post, I've used it a handful of times. But still it's just another package manager, has a GUI installer and env setup usuall

I thought of conda after I made the post, I've used it a handful of times. But still it's just another package manager, has a GUI installer and env setup usually takes max two commands that will be in the README. My point essentially is that the extra friction in running a script in Python vs Rust is minor relative to extra friction in learning and writing Rust vs Python, so the comparison in some ways misses the purpose of a scripting language. Personally I write a lot of Rust lately and very little Python, I'd absolutely choose it for a script but I understand why it doesn't always make sense.