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Doing it without glibc is not practical

• AndyKelley 3y ago
  why?
  • lionkor 3y ago
    Because otherwise you need to implement almost everything yourself - memory allocation, input, output, etc. and anything more complex (like asking for the width of the terminal) requires you to get into Kernel structs, copy them out, translate, and basically copy paste glibc code anyways. And thats just linux.
    • bruce_one 3y ago
      There are alternative C libraries that are worth considering, e.g. Zig (which is what Bun itself is written in, afaiu) supports using [musl](https://musl.libc.org https://musl.libc.org) as an alternative to glibc, and musl can be statically linked as well (by contrast to the glibc quasi-static-linking).
• silverwind 3y ago
  It's just DNS isn't it? Many apps don't even need DNS, so there should at least be an option to build fully static binaries.