As a sysadmin, I hated java way more than python :-)
At least, with java, no one even attempts to use distro package tools to manage libraries, packages and dependencies. Can you see a sysadmin using a syslog replacement implemented in java, requiring java8, along with a webserver only running on java5?
With python, some tools (those big enough to be packaged) are no problem. Some random tool from pip -- not so much -- now you have to patch that python binary, those python dependencies etc... and not just track security.your-distro.org.
It is certainly possible to deploy your system in a similar way you deploy your apps (take on 100% of the burden of maintaining the whole thing) -- but normally you want the "system" to be a stable foundation on which to erect your rickety duct-taped mono-jvm-python-ruby app-stack with the help of puppet/chef/cfengine/salt/ansible... you don't want pip/hackage/gem/npm to manage your system. You might trust it to manage a single application.
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As a sysadmin, I hated java way more than python :-)
At least, with java, no one even attempts to use distro package tools to manage libraries, packages and dependencies. Can you see a sysadmin using a syslog replacement implemented in java, requiring java8, along with a webserver only running on java5?
With python, some tools (those big enough to be packaged) are no problem. Some random tool from pip -- not so much -- now you have to patch that python binary, those python dependencies etc... and not just track security.your-distro.org.
It is certainly possible to deploy your system in a similar way you deploy your apps (take on 100% of the burden of maintaining the whole thing) -- but normally you want the "system" to be a stable foundation on which to erect your rickety duct-taped mono-jvm-python-ruby app-stack with the help of puppet/chef/cfengine/salt/ansible... you don't want pip/hackage/gem/npm to manage your system. You might trust it to manage a single application.