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Dependency minimalism (writing software that deliberately tries to have as few dependencies as practical) is a really underrated virtue imo.

Every single dependency is a risk that "something will go wrong" during someone's installation process. Installing projects with hundreds of dependencies and walking through errors can be incredibly frustrating.

💯 - folks have asked me why I wrote my Safe transaction script (https://github.com/pcaversaccio/safe-tx-hashes-util) as pure Bash script and not eg via Python. Minimal dependency. You have to only trust Linux (and Foundry) in this case. The current world is dominated by dependency bloat. This is bad and insecure engineering. Period.

𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭.

https://github.com/pcaversaccio

I would argue that the review process for Linux (the kernel) and core utilities (like Bash) which is maintained by the GNU project are very different in strictness. iirc each GNU project has significant maintainer autonomy and Bash in particular is maintained by one person (I don't recall his name but he took over from Brian Fox, the original author). 

Thus, Bash's review process is actually less rigorous than both the Linux kernel and Python's core language.

Tricks with polynomials and Riemann-Roch spaces. Breaking into the platonic realm to pillage forbidden abstractions. Starknet grantee.

you could write the same script in python without dependencies other than the std lib:

- Argument parsing (argparse)
- HTTP requests (urllib.request or http.client)
- JSON handling (json)
- Structured data (dataclasses)
- calling `chisel` and `cast` with subprocess

I also don't know if I would call the script pure bash. It's calling chisel and cast which have dependencies and sub dependencies.

It's not about Python here but about Python dependencies.