> Nowadays you even have younger developers praising static linking, as if this wasn't what we had around since the invention of the first linker, and dynamic l

> Nowadays you even have younger developers praising static linking, as if this wasn't what we had around since the invention of the first linker, and dynamic linking only became mainstream in the 1990's. > Naturally only knowing Linux, GCC and glibc doesn't help. It's amazing how low-brow condescension passes for wisdom. Let me give you a hint: ontogeny does not actually recapitulate phylogeny. So just because you have some vague memories of previous iterations of a technology does not mean that it's the same thing being discussed today