the reason python was used is because of its portability and robustness; it can be made to work (without problems) on pretty much any platform, plus it's omnipr

the reason python was used is because of its portability and robustness; it can be made to work (without problems) on pretty much any platform, plus it's omnipresent and has an extensive enough standard library to write things without pulling in tons of dependencies it's also not actually a package management tool per se (that's handled by apk-tools) but really just a build system (it creates apk repositories) similar to ports, void-packages, etc. i'm also a Void Linux developer, and the new system is based on my experiences with xbps-src (trying to avoid its problems)