When I find a project that is a handful of .c files and a Makefile they almost always compile and run. Sometimes with warnings because the features used in the code are depreciated but usually without too much fanfare.
Same in Rust. Actually, it's quite better than in C. The only time Rust projects fail to compile is when they pull in some C library and something there (like configure.ac) messed up. :D
And if this C project does anything interesting it pulls in bunch of C libraries that came precompiled with your OS, and might be stale and contain unpatched security vulns.
C/C++ developers pointing at other languages about dependency hell is a curiosity.
