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You can statically link binaries. Plan9 does only that, Rust and Go only support static linking (by default). The problem is that you need a good meta-data system that will allow you to track what was linked into each binary, so that if there is a security issue you know exactly what needs to be rebuilt. I don't think we have such a system yet. If I have a bug in OpenSSL I just update that, restart servers using TLS and it is patched.
Fantastic idea! This would be a really important project to see developed!
Just nitpicking here, but last week i learned golang binaries are not statically-linked (at least not completely).