I like static linking, for some thing. Web applications is something I would really like to be just a statically linked binary, simply because it would enable you to chroot the application easily.
Indeed, static linking is very handy for deploying web services. Moreover, the trend with docker and similar technologies is that you deploy a whole new VM image.
That could be considered "static linking", too, because even if it uses shared libraries within the VM image, the image is always replaced as a whole - in those systems you do not replace just a single library within the running image.
If you go even further, you finally reach concepts like MirageOS, where not only the libraries are statically linked into the application, but the whole kernel as well. That way, you have exactly the code you need within your VM, nothing more.
