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Comment by forrestthewoods

> Ahh the eternal cycle of static vs dynamic linking swings around again.

Somewhat. Although it's agnostic to static vs dynamic linking. The philosophy goes a bit deeper than that.

> See? that saved 35739475749Kb of storage!

Storage capacity hasn't been relevant for over a decade.

Besides, we foolishly replaced "use shared modules to save storage space" with "build multi-gigabyte docker images because it's the only way to reliably launch a simple program without crashing on startup".

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