| If you got a progress bar, website, and dependency tree for every #include <argp.h>, <stdio.h>, <sstream>, or <curl.h> it'd feel pretty crazy too. Imagine if `make` went out and pulled latest upstream changes for `pthreads` every time any one of your dependencies used it. C++ imagine it's pulling and building boost, or abseil. C#? The entire mono/.net toolchain and system/ FFI libraries. Imagine if we had "dot-h.io" that tracked how many separate C projects used argp. Laughable! Millions! Every language has gobs of dependencies. So many dependencies it'd make you sick. Thousands upon thousands of lines of code, just to make something that runs on one target and says "Hello world" to the screen. Hell, some languages require you to run a runtime on your operating system that runs on real hardware _just to launch those thousands of lines of code_. And those are written using curl.h, pthreads.h, etc etc (or similar). Bananas! At least those with package managers allow you to see it, audit it, update it seamlessly. If it's too big, use "nostd" |