I've actually started to transition my shell scripts to eLisp for better integration in to Emacs and eshell.
As a Lisp, eLisp is not the greatest, but I'd still much rather use it than Python.
I also don't want to sit and twiddle my thumbs while a Python script takes its sweet time in loading. Slow startup time is the kiss of death for most shell scripts.
Python startup time is slow for you?? It’s basically instantaneously on every machine I’ve ever used, unless there’s some seriously poorly written imports.
I'm not the original poster, but judging from the answer it looks as though they'd already have an Emacs session open and can execute it without any extra startup-time; in which case the answer is yes, because there's no startup time.
As a Lisp, eLisp is not the greatest, but I'd still much rather use it than Python.
I also don't want to sit and twiddle my thumbs while a Python script takes its sweet time in loading. Slow startup time is the kiss of death for most shell scripts.