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Shared libraries suck. It is much better to have a single binary w/ zero library dependencies. The only reason we can't have this is because of sub-standard tooling that makes compiling so expensive that we must suffer shared libraries.





shared libs happened because memory was scarce

pretty cool that we are undoing it as a design decision

but it will take a long time


Not really. More like, there are some languages that don't support static builds (Python, glibc) and other languages that don't support dynamic libraries (rust) and I'm so tired and this unit was built to frolic in meadows



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