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Go static linking is a great happy idea for a Java guy trapped in the Classpath Dependency Hell (or C# / DLL Hell). It is a very annoying thing for a C++ progr

• skrebbel 5y ago
  You mean a C++ programmer who does not care whether their program works on anybody else's computer?
  • synergy20 5y ago
    in that case you can happily static-link c++ programs, which probably will be smaller than go binary.
    • anthk 5y ago
      happily and "statically link c++" don't match together well.
      • pjmlp 5y ago
        They do, there are more C++ compilers out there than gcc with glibc.
• kstenerud 5y ago
  "DLL Hell" was coined in the early days of Windows (before C#), and originally referred to C and C++ dynamic library problems.
• anthk 5y ago
  Go's static linking idea comes from plan9 C compilers, a few years before Java. We owe a lot from plan9: - Go's design, based on both C compilers and Inferno's limbo - /proc - utf-8 - 9p
  • eklitzke 5y ago
    /proc does not come from plan9: http://dtrace.org/blogs/eschrock/2004/06/25/a-brief-history-of-proc/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/eschrock/2004/06/25/a-brief-history-...
    • anthk 5y ago
      Unix 8/10 -> Plan9 :). Rio's foundations come from the Blit. Unix 8/10 was not a big success, but a lot of ideas from that went into Plan9.