I think this is true for nearly all compiled languages. I had the same fun with rust and openSSL and glibC. OP didn’t mentioned the fun with glib-c when compiling on a fairly recent distro and trying it to run on an older one. There is the “many Linux” project which provides docker images with a minimum glib c version installed so it’s compatible with newer ones. The switch to a newer open ssl version on Debian/Ubuntu created some issues for my tool. I replaced it with rust tls to remove the dynamic linked library. I prefer complete statically linked binaries though. But that is really hard to do and damn near impossible on Apple systems.