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Do you play any steam games or most other modern games? Yea those static compile almost everything.
by warmwaffles 7y ago
Do you play any steam games or most other modern games? Yea those static compile almost everything.
- ajross 7y agoThis example hurts the case, it doesn't help. Windows deployment, especially of C/C++ apps, is indeed a problem. And for decades it was absolutely routine that random windows binaries turn out to be subject to attacks against libraries like zlib or libjpeg which had been long since patched in linux distributions but lived on statically in exploitable blobs. Things have in fact gotten much better over the past years, though. Largely because developers (even of games) have moved away from this architecture and onto managed runtimes like Java and .NET where the runtime and system provide cleaner separation of dependencies and don't require the "static all the time" nonsense that was the norm since the beginning of PCs.