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by pjmlp 2 days ago
Because most of them depend on UNIX being there in first place, aka all of POSIX, alongside Khronos APIs.

Additionally, most C libraries tend to come via UNIX package managers directly, and then consumed via CMake, pkg-config or what not.

I do agree Rust dependency trees are a problem, for security, and always compiling everything from source.