For what it's worth, you're right. I saw the same thing happen with Go: everyone seems to think that Go invented static linking and gasp compiling executables,

For what it's worth, you're right. I saw the same thing happen with Go: everyone seems to think that Go invented static linking and gasp compiling executables, seemingly ignorant of the fact that we actually used to do that all the time, before bloated dynamic runtimes and massive virtual machines even existed. I don't trust software "experts" who don't know their history, because they usually don't know a lot of other important things, either.