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> significantly smaller than Android, Windows, and Linux binaries Linux distributions do use dynamic linking (.so files are dynamic library) like OSX does (but

> significantly smaller than Android, Windows, and Linux binaries Linux distributions do use dynamic linking (.so files are dynamic library) like OSX does (but with .dylib). Windows also has dynamic linking (.dll), but they are less frequently used because the lack of a package manager with dependency management requires application vendors to distributes non-system libraries with their application anyway.

jayd16 7y ago
Hmm, then why is the article written like Swift has any significant advantage?
- gpm 7y ago
  You could instead interpret it as C++ and Rust (minus the C like parts) have disadvantages. Swift performed some compiler heroics to keep the advantages while still having similar features to them.