> Static linking makes portability a breeze. I don’t know why this idea was lost in virtually every scripting language from the past 20 years. Because they are

> Static linking makes portability a breeze. I don’t know why this idea was lost in virtually every scripting language from the past 20 years. Because they are invented at a time before storage and RAM is dirt cheap and lightning fast. It was painfully wasteful and slow to load a copy of the standard library for every process. Dynamic linking was invented basically because static linking wasn’t feasible.