Python was not taken seriously as something you actually shipped to non-devs. The solution was normally "install the correct version of Python on the host syst

Python was not taken seriously as something you actually shipped to non-devs. The solution was normally "install the correct version of Python on the host system". In the Linux world, this could be handled through Docker, pyenv. For Windows users, this meant installing a several GB distro and hoping it didn't conflict with what was already on the system.