I don’t know man, I’ve written a lot of C and C++ and other languages and the sheer effort to get your average C project to compile is much greater than others. The dependencies aren’t listed anywhere, they are rarely compatible with the versions available via your package manager (so now you’re building more things from source), ./configure regularly runs into problems (“couldn’t guess which platform you were on”, “your version of grep is incompatible”, etc). It’s just a big mess of yak shaving. If you think I’m making too big a deal, I invite you to spend some time in the Go or Rust ecosystems where you just “cargo build” or “go build” and you’re done. You don’t need to understand anything about the project, there are no shitty DSLs to grok (looking at you, CMake). Things just work.