I've been doing Python for over five years now. I recently installed a small command line tool using npm. I was completely stunned by the number of dependencies

I've been doing Python for over five years now. I recently installed a small command line tool using npm. I was completely stunned by the number of dependencies. At first I thought it must be something else, like maybe it's running tests? But no, hundreds of dependencies. If it were written in python it probably wouldn't even have one.