> C also has a fairly big runtime library The original releases of OpenWRT used uClibc, which is nowhere near Glibc levels of bloat (Musl beats it on code qual

> C also has a fairly big runtime library The original releases of OpenWRT used uClibc, which is nowhere near Glibc levels of bloat (Musl beats it on code quality and is used today, but didn’t exist back then). Also, yeah, you’re going to have a libc on a Linux system no matter what, so this is one of the rare cases where dynamic linking makes for a legitimate optimization.