You're right about cross-compilation, but > Depending on where bottlenecks are, RPC/HTTP/WS can be just as effective as dynamic linking. ...is just wrong. Eve

You're right about cross-compilation, but > Depending on where bottlenecks are, RPC/HTTP/WS can be just as effective as dynamic linking. ...is just wrong. Even when performance doesn't matter at all (and it matters significantly: replacing even a low constant number dynamic library calls with optimized host-local RPCs using a fast transport can be enough to transition latency from "unnoticeable" to "a human can feel the lag"), the complexity undertaken when orchestrating any sort of RPC or webservice/webhook is substantial--absent LD_LIBRARY_PATH hacks and getting libraries installed, you don't have to think about any of that stuff when (dynamically or statically) linking.