[steveklabnik]

Incidentally, this thing comes up a lot: Python vs Rust for scripts. I wrote a comparison four years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22712441

And updated it six months later:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24595081

That's still how I'd do this task today.

Anyway, I don't think that Rust is always a great choice for scripting, but if you already know Rust, it's totally fine at it.

[germandiago]

Same for C++ with a good options library and std::filesystem IMHO. You can kind of script with that. I did it and was surprised it did well for some of my engine tooling.