Dynamic linking is the bane of backwards compatibility.
Now everything is containers, appimages, flatpacks, docker images and so on, and all they do is pack all the libraries a binary may need, in a more wasteful and inefficient format than static linking.
In that sense, we truly have the worst of both worlds.
Dynamic linking is the bane of backwards compatibility.
Now everything is containers, appimages, flatpacks, docker images and so on, and all they do is pack all the libraries a binary may need, in a more wasteful and inefficient format than static linking.
In that sense, we truly have the worst of both worlds.