It's also hyperbole

I've worked in plenty of javascript shops and unfortunately its not so far off the mark. Its quite common to see JS projects with thousands of transitive dependencies. I've seen the same in python too.

	▲	morshu9001 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's funny how Py has less of this reputation just because the package manager is so broken that you might have a hard time adding so many deps in the first place. (Maybe fixed with uv, but that's relatively new and not default.)