> these executables will be easily redistributable and work on any distro
While this sounds amazing and I'm sure is very useful in various situations, I think encouraging a culture of distributing software in such a fashion is an incredibly bad idea. This is a big issue I have with the Go culture. Downloading a statically linked binary from some site and just sticking it somewhere is extremely bad practise to encourage. The user will never get prompted to update it, vulnerabilities and bugs in the vendored libraries will never be addressed... the list of issues is endless.
Distributions are not really about distribution, they're about maintenance.
While this sounds amazing and I'm sure is very useful in various situations, I think encouraging a culture of distributing software in such a fashion is an incredibly bad idea. This is a big issue I have with the Go culture. Downloading a statically linked binary from some site and just sticking it somewhere is extremely bad practise to encourage. The user will never get prompted to update it, vulnerabilities and bugs in the vendored libraries will never be addressed... the list of issues is endless.
Distributions are not really about distribution, they're about maintenance.