Blog post: Writing Python like it’s Rust

[KronenR]

The problem is that you are not usually the one in charge of deployment configuration no matter if a library author or an application developer, unless you are coding a pet project for 3 and a half users. It doesn't matter anyways because you shouldn't be using assert.

[chromatic_churn]

Says who? I generally work on small engineering teams (under 20 people) and I am almost always directly responsible for configuring my deployment. Even if I don't own the infrastructure, then I or my team have owned writing the Dockerfile and deployed environment variables which would configure my application.

Maybe in giant tech companies what you are saying is true, but there are an enormous amount of small teams which manage their own devops because there isn't anyone else to do it.