> We have libraries like SQLite, which is a single .c file that you drag into your project

You are just swapping a package manager with security by obscurity by copy pasting code into your project. It is arguably a much worse way of handling supply chain security, as now there is no way to audit your dependencies.

> If you get rid of transitive dependencies, you get rid of the need of a package manager

This argument makes no sense. Obviously reducing the amount of transitive dependencies is almost always a good thing, but it doesn't change the fundamental benefits of a package manager.

> There's so many C libraries like this

The language with the most fundamental and dangerous ways of handling memory, the language that is constantly in the news for numerous security problems even in massively popular libraries such as OpenSSL? Yes, definitely copy-paste that code in, surely nothing can go wrong.

> They also bindings for every language under the sun. Rust libraries are very rarely used outside of Rust

This is a WILD assumption, doing C-style bindings is actually quite common. YOu will of course then also be exposing a memory unsafe interface, as that is what you get with C.

What exactly is your argument here? It feels like what you are trying to say is that we should just stop doing JS and instead all make C programs that copy paste massive libraries because that is somhow 'high quality'.

This seems like a massively uninformed, one-sided and frankly ridiculous take.