The only dependencies are the C standard libraries (this is even mentioned in the blog post). So unless there's some terrible hackery going on (and skimming the

The only dependencies are the C standard libraries (this is even mentioned in the blog post). So unless there's some terrible hackery going on (and skimming the source files, it doesn't look like there is), these are going to be more portable than most of the mega-libs you'd be choosing instead. What makes you so incredulous about this?