[coldtea]

>I just want to understand that given the mostly negative reaction that's here at HN to the npm ecosystem which is based on the same "minimalist libraries" idea, how is this different?

It's different in that in C you don't pull in 200 dependencies which in-turn bring in another 10+ dependencies each.

You just use 2-3 libs you need (and that they, in turn, don't require anything, or at best the POSIX standard libs), and that's it.