alt Hacker NewsI expected somebody to pull out an example "disproving" my point. It wouldn't be hard. I can point out rust projects that have a ton of external dependencies, and then point at similar projects with very few.
But a Python example doesn't really count, in my mind -- Python is pre-GitHub so tends to have small numbers of large external dependencies, like C++ and other older languages.
If a python example doesn't count, why were your two example languages python and go?
But yeah, small number of large dependencies is the way to go.