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Having dealt only a tiny bit with Node, GYP (it's garbage C++ interop layer) and the inexplicable dependency on Python (???) being installed on the devs machine in order to build the C++ code that got copied into node_modules, I know better than to ever try another library making use of that.

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I don't think you have less dep when building other c++ projects. People also use automake, autoconf or whatever to generate makefiles. It is just that the author choose python here. I never see anybody writes makefile manually and build moderate or big size project. There are always tons of tools used.

That's why the library ships prebuilt binaries with no dependencies at all. No compiler is even needed.

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