I basically agree with these tradeoffs (you should never be pulling in dependencies outside the builtins), but let's look back to GP:

> Comparing the shell to C, Go, Rust, Python, or JavaScript is crazypants. It has a different job than those, so of course it will look and feel different!

The point was just a small one, that Python is not like the others. C, Go, and Rust do not come with REPLs. Node is plausible to use as an OS shell but I've never heard of anyone doing that. Python is the only one of those I've used as a shell or have heard of others using as a shell.

Again, I'm not advocating for Python as a good general-purpose shell. I'm only making the small claim that C, Go, Rust, and (to a smaller extent) JavaScript cannot be be used like bash. Python could be used as a shell.