Forgetting the past, and doing the same mistakes...
Not Linus, but a lot of young dev and newcomers are discovering static libs building with GO and co, and think that it is a revolution and that it solves all their problems.
But, they are probably forgetting or not knowing the world of static libs before dynamic one became a thing.
A big part of the revolution of linux success in servers and all come from the magic that brought a full system built on shared dynamic libraries.
Do anyone remember having to install a 1Gb software to setup a hp printer on windows?
The full afternoon or day needed to wait for the installation of visual studio?
The ms office installation needing multiple gigabytes when openoffice could be downloaded and installed for a hundreds megabytes at most?
Not Linus, but a lot of young dev and newcomers are discovering static libs building with GO and co, and think that it is a revolution and that it solves all their problems.
But, they are probably forgetting or not knowing the world of static libs before dynamic one became a thing.
A big part of the revolution of linux success in servers and all come from the magic that brought a full system built on shared dynamic libraries.
Do anyone remember having to install a 1Gb software to setup a hp printer on windows?
The full afternoon or day needed to wait for the installation of visual studio?
The ms office installation needing multiple gigabytes when openoffice could be downloaded and installed for a hundreds megabytes at most?