[andreif]

Dependencies is a sign of weakness.

[tmountain]

As opposed to writing everything from scratch? Python has a huge standard library. Making it bigger to avoid dependencies would add more bloat to the distribution.

[markhahn]

and automatic internet-supplied dependencies are a sign of supplychain vulnerability

[pjc50]

Ah yes, all applications should be a single very large source file that issues OS syscalls directly.