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I, on the other hand, don't care what language the tools are written in.

I do get the sentiment that a user of these tools, being a Python developer could in theory contribute to them.

But, if a tool does its job, I don't care if it's not "in Python". Moreover, I imagine there is a class of problems with the Python environment setup that'd break the tool that could help you fix it if the tool itself is written in Python.

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It is well known, and not Python-specific, that using a different language/interpreter for development tools eliminates large classes of bootstrapping complications and conflicts.

If there are two versions of X, it becomes possible to use the wrong one.

If a tool to manage X depends on X, some of the changes that we would like the tool to perform are more difficult, imperfect or practically impossible.

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