[ryanplant-au]

> a very known fact for all unix grey beards

The co-inventor of Unix, Ken Thompson, and the Unix team engineer and author of The Unix Programming Environment, Rob Pike, are both big advocates of static linking. They designed Go and made a big point of emphasising static linking. Pike: "Shared libraries are obviously a good idea until you've actually used them. Whether it's obvious or not that they're a bad idea is mostly a matter of how close you are to trying to get them to work." He wrote the first windowing system for Unix, which surely qualifies him as a greybeard.

[neoeldex]

It's a shame they didn't roll a proper package manager with the language toolkit. Having your executable depend on having some lib installed is quite a pain. But how do you share libraries properly then? Especially without a proper way of bundling deps in your code...

Using cargo always makes me feel at ease when writing Rust. Haven't dabbled with linkers though.

[xfer]

And rust binaries all link the rust libs statically(you can change linking), maybe because it is easier to distribute static binaries that work everywhere than to distribute a bunch of libraries without official channel(your os distributions).

[pjmlp]

The same Rob Pike also stated that UNIX is past its due date.