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Fri, Jul 16 23:32 2021 (2y ago)

↳ In-reply-to » Please help me understand. There are people who strongly favor static linking over dynamic linking. What is their solution to “the update problem”? You know, when there’s an update to a central library, you have to rebuild/redownload every binary that uses it. I have not seen a satisfying answer to this. What am I missing? 🤔

The thing for me of late (past 10 year sor so) is that static linking, especially with languages and toolchains like that of {Go](https://golang.org) basically give you a portability where you almost never have to care about the system you’re deploying to. Just deploy the binary in whatever form and you’re good to do. That’s a BIG win in my DevOps/SRE/PRE books!

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