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My question is actually not what everyone uses, but what is best suited for the task. Those two things are, of course, almost always different, because the average person is anything but smart. Here you see that Julia is indeed better suited for handling data than Bash: https://github.com/ninjaaron/administrative-scripting-with-julia And here you see that Lisp will be the best scripting language for certain persons: https://quotepark.com/quotes/1879617-larry-wall-is-lisp-a-candidate-for-a-scripting-language-whil/ Obviously, if you don't have in-depth experience with both languages, you don't have to answer my question.
You are right that tools are important to a sysadmin. Let's assume (as a kind of thought experiment) that Python is a programming language for the less gifted. Then it is a logical consequence that the tools developed by Python users will have more security vulnerabilities, less productive, and more power consumption. For example, let's take awesome-compose, perhaps the most popular Docker project on GitHub: https://github.com/docker/awesome-compose According to my logical theory, Docker will be one of the least intelligent tools. (Because Docker is a popular development tool for Python developers.) And as it turns out, Docker is indeed one of the dumbest container technologies and one of the biggest security blunders in IT history: https://pdfhost.io/v/YSd79UGBC_dockerpdf.pdf