Static linking is pretty common in the jvm world where you want to have a single war/jar/ear that you deploy so that can figure out all those things at compile

Static linking is pretty common in the jvm world where you want to have a single war/jar/ear that you deploy so that can figure out all those things at compile time, rather than deploy time. I think languages with a compile step naturally tends towards static linking for SaaS systems since single compiled blobs are much easier to manage and deploy. But Docker is also pretty much static linking of the entire runtime environment, and that seems to be getting some traction where people have messier deployments.