It is unclear to me what the author's point is. Its seems to center on the example of DPDK being difficult to link (and it is a bear, I've done it recently).
But its full of strawmen and falsehoods, the most notable being the claims about the deficienies of pkg-config. pkg-config works great, it is just very rarely produced correctly by CMake.
I have tooling and a growing set of libraries that I'll probably open source at some point for producing correct pkg-config from packages that only do lazy CMake. It's glorious. Want abseil? -labsl.
Static libraries have lots of game-changing advantages, but performance, security, and portability are the biggest ones.
People with the will and/or resources (FAANGs, HFT) would laugh in your face if you proposed DLL hell as standard operating procedure. That shit is for the plebs.
It's like symbol stripping: do you think maintainers trip an assert and see a wall of inscrutable hex? They do not.
Vendors like things good for vendors. They market these things as being good for users.
But its full of strawmen and falsehoods, the most notable being the claims about the deficienies of pkg-config. pkg-config works great, it is just very rarely produced correctly by CMake.
I have tooling and a growing set of libraries that I'll probably open source at some point for producing correct pkg-config from packages that only do lazy CMake. It's glorious. Want abseil? -labsl.
Static libraries have lots of game-changing advantages, but performance, security, and portability are the biggest ones.
People with the will and/or resources (FAANGs, HFT) would laugh in your face if you proposed DLL hell as standard operating procedure. That shit is for the plebs.
It's like symbol stripping: do you think maintainers trip an assert and see a wall of inscrutable hex? They do not.
Vendors like things good for vendors. They market these things as being good for users.