@rburchell @jani I've been trying to defend the core. My multiple years removing perl dependencies from the build didn't get them out of the raid subsystem etc.
Python is in an especially terrible dependency these days because it's developed a single magic implementation policed by its userbase and forcibly expired every few months:
https://landley.net/notes-2024.html#09-04-2024
No ruby/mruby, php/ph7 gcc/llvm/tinycc allowed, only "you must upgrade to the current version of Microsoft (tm) Word to read this file".