There is a happy medium... somewhere. After following Postgres development for the better part of a decade, I think it's definitely closer to the python side of things... But man they (python) do make it hard to like using that ecosystem.
The flip side is like you said... You will just have to reimplement everything yourself and then you can never worry about dependencies again! Just hope you didn't introduce some obscure security issue in your hashmap implementation .
The flip side is like you said... You will just have to reimplement everything yourself and then you can never worry about dependencies again! Just hope you didn't introduce some obscure security issue in your hashmap implementation .