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Shared libraries suck. It is much better to have a single binary w/ zero library dependencies. The only reason we can't have this is because of sub-standard too
by eikenberry 1y ago
Shared libraries suck. It is much better to have a single binary w/ zero library dependencies. The only reason we can't have this is because of sub-standard tooling that makes compiling so expensive that we must suffer shared libraries.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 1y agoNot really. More like, there are some languages that don't support static builds (Python, glibc) and other languages that don't support dynamic libraries (rust) and I'm so tired and this unit was built to frolic in meadows
- tgpc 1y agoshared libs happened because memory was scarce pretty cool that we are undoing it as a design decision but it will take a long time
- hedora 1y agoYou missed the joke. Flatpak is not getting rid of shared libraries. They're just reimplementing them in a way that's strictly worse in multiple ways. Re-read the section "How Flatpak Tries to Save Space: Runtimes and Deduplication" in the article.