How important is the option for dynamic linking (vs static linking) in the modern day?
How important is the option for dynamic linking (vs static linking) in the modern day?
There was a time where this debate was bigger. It seems the world has shifted towards architectures and tooling that does not allow dynamic linking or makes it harder. This compromise makes it easier for the maintainers of the tools / languages, but does take away choice from the user / developer. But maybe that's not important? What are your thoughts?
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It seems the world has shifted towards architectures and tooling that does not allow dynamic linking or makes it harder.
In what context? In Linux, dynamic links have always been a steady thing.
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but tools like Docker / Containers, Flatpack, Nix, etc. essentially use sort of a soft static link in that the software is compiled dynamically but the shared libraries are not actually shared at all beyond the boundary of the defining scope.
This garbage practice is imported from windows.
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