I agree with this, but the examples don’t really work for me.

Sqlite is that easy to get started with… if you already have make and a C compiler installed.

The example makefile they give later on assumes that packages are installed using brew, which obviously won’t be true on Linux or windows, but isn’t always true on macOS either. You can maybe make assumptions like this at $WORK though. I might use this technique at my next job.

that's wrong, silly, and just bad advice.

installing crap on dev machines is as bad as recommending "curl -k ownme.wtf/install.sh | sudo bash"

just DOCUMENT things. if the requirements section is not trivial to satisfy, your dependencies suck or you suck at writing docs.