Some points in that page don't seem like valid criticism. Like, complaining that the compiler is not "zero dependency" on Linux, because it depends on glibc?

Some points in that page don't seem like valid criticism. Like, complaining that the compiler is not "zero dependency" on Linux, because it depends on glibc? Also, allocating a fixed 1000 byte region at the start of a program is not a "memory leak". In fact even glibc has tons of such "initial fixed cost" allocations - IIRC valgrind has built-in "suppression file" to ignore these allocations. (It would be a memory leak if the compiler allocated new 1000 byte chunks every time println is called, but the article doesn't demonstrate it so I guess I'll never know.)