[bieganski]

> while there's also a push to statically link everything

could you elaborate? who is pushing and what?

dynamic linking has it pitfalls, often it's a pain, but it has big big profits as well.

[dspillett]

> > while there's also a push to statically link everything

> could you elaborate? who is pushing and what?

I don't know of a more general movement, but Go developers seem very eager/proud about the single-binary thing. It can make deployments, particularly updates, much less issue prone.

[makapuf]

Well, if you're deploying in a container where the only useful userspace program is your http server web API, embedding the whole clib and cpplib just for a few functions, it is smaller and simpler to deploy to use static linking.

[pajko]

And dynamic libraries can be prelinked to regain some performance: https://linux.die.net/man/8/prelink