.NET has various things in this space, but I think a lot are commercial products. .NET is not used as much in academia, so most things are targeted at professionals. With that said, you can probably get free/cheap licenses for many/most of commercial products.
But I think Python probably has the most active community as its been used as glue for a long time in this space.
But I think Python probably has the most active community as its been used as glue for a long time in this space.