[deadsy]

Right - they statically link which means that you typically don't have to worry about shared object dependencies when moving the binary around. You just have big binaries. If you use cgo (integration with C-code and C based libraries) then you are back to *.so versioning problems.

[DrScump]

You still have to worry about other factors such as byte-swapped platforms (big- vs. little-endian).

[kanishkdudeja]

Right. I've mentioned this in the article now.