> People still don’t agree if shared libraries are a net win or a net loss as a concept :) After decades of preferring shared libraries a friend quickly convin

> People still don’t agree if shared libraries are a net win or a net loss as a concept :) After decades of preferring shared libraries a friend quickly convinced me to flip a few years ago. Nowadays the benefits aren't worth the hassles and disk space is cheap (reduced object file size used to be a big deal when system disk sizes were measured in tens of MB or even KB). Even a static binary almost always needs to be dynamically linked to the system libraries so the OS can be updated.