4 ms·
As a Go user who values statically linked executables I can definitely say I was around when this was the only thing our compilers could spit out. The reason I
by zaphar 4y ago
As a Go user who values statically linked executables I can definitely say I was around when this was the only thing our compilers could spit out.
The reason I value it is because it makes deployment so much easier. I've re-lived DLL Hell so many times on so many systems by now that I'll happily take the memory/filesystem/pactching pain to have something I can deploy and know it will run on the system I deploy it to any day of the week.
- pjmlp 4y agoThere is a big difference between valuing it, and acting as if it was a wonder that Go brought into the world never achieved before. Which is how most in the community act like. There is also a lesson on why dynamic linking is used, and why in its absence one needs to resort to IPC.