Static linking is the root cause for “modern” apps based on Electron taking minutes to start up and be useful. They’re statically linking almost an entire opera

Static linking is the root cause for “modern” apps based on Electron taking minutes to start up and be useful. They’re statically linking almost an entire operating system (Chromium), an entire web server, server runtime framework, and an equivalent client framework for good measure. On the fastest PC that money can buy this is somewhere between “slow” and “molasses”. I miss the good old days when useful GUI programs were mere kilobytes in size and launched instantly.