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Exactly. I don't see the benefits of shared libraries in terms of software distribution. It makes sense for them to be used as standard system libraries, like in macOS with System.dylib or libc.so in many distros.

For general apps using third-party libraries, nowadays static libraries is the way to go, as I have said months ago [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24606580




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