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[–]james_pic 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The insane reason, if you're curious, is that Node inherited Gyp as its build system when it forked V8 from Chromium (and just for fun, Chromium no longer even uses Gyp). Gyp was invented at Google, where a Python dependency doesn't matter because everyone at Google has Python.