I used Python for the last 10 years or so for all sorts of cross-platform command line scripting stuff, but watching Python3's progress I have the impression that this simple use case is no longer their main focus (I sometimes wonder if there's any focus or vision at all tbh). After having tinkered with Deno for the last 2 weeks or so I must say that this is indeed the 'better Python' (for me at least, and not because of Typescript - the language is more or less just an implementation detail for writing command line utilities - but because of Deno's approach to package management).