[donio]

You are talking about backward compatibility, the parent thread is about forward compatibility. You won't have much luck running a modern executable on XP unless the vendor went out of their way to make that happen.

> What's worse is that you can't even really statically link it without herculean effort.

The program we are discussing happens to be written in Go so it's trivial to build a statically linked executable.

[worthless-trash]

Are you sure you want glibc statically linked into your go executable ?

[donio]

glibc won't be used at all.

With Go on Linux libc is only needed when the libc DNS resolver is used (instead of Go's built-in one) or if C libraries are used. superfile doesn't need either of these so it's very simple to build it as a pure Go executable which will be statically linked and contain no C code at all.

[worthless-trash]

Op's example however did use glibc though.