I was thinking similarly. Any kind of programming language environment can leave all sorts of real + cached files lying around. In the Python word, I just crea

I was thinking similarly. Any kind of programming language environment can leave all sorts of real + cached files lying around. In the Python word, I just created a new virtual environment on Linux, and that had 1339 files. I then loaded it up with a few standard players (numpy, pandas, scipy, scikit-learn, matplotlib, dask, and django) - this ballooned the file count to 16,945.