> It's not about C per-se, as much as each native compiled dependency creates additional maintenance concerns. Changes to hardware/OS can require a recompile or

> It's not about C per-se, as much as each native compiled dependency creates additional maintenance concerns. Changes to hardware/OS can require a recompile or even fixes. This is a canard. zopfli is written in portable C and is far more portable than the nodejs runtime. On any hardware/OS combo that one can build the nodejs runtime, they certainly can also build and run zopfli.