It's been around for years now, is super battle tested, and user tooling continues to get easier. As a bonus, it works for not only python but other tooling as well.
Depends on which part the coworker needed. If it was passing around a reproducible environment, sure, Docker works. But if they needed "here's a thing I can double-click and it'll just work" then Docker has no real advantages.
It's been around for years now, is super battle tested, and user tooling continues to get easier. As a bonus, it works for not only python but other tooling as well.