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by schemescape 1122 days ago
From that article:

> Even more recently (2018), the GNU C Library glibc-2.28 adds Python as a build requirement

I’m surprised they went with Python and not GNU software (e.g. Guile).

Edit: clicking through the link it sounds like this might be intended to replace other accumulated dependencies (Perl?) and stop supporting old versions of Python.