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Personally, I prefer static linking. There's just something appealing about an all-in-one binary.
It's also important to note that applications are rarely 100% one or the other. Full static linking is really only possible in the Linux (and BSD?) worlds thanks to syscall stability - on macOS and Windows, dynamically linking the local
libcis the only good way to talk to the kernel.(There have been some attempts made to avoid this. Most famously, Go attempted to bypass linking
libcon macOS in favor of raw syscalls... only to discover that when the kernel devs say "unstable," they mean it.)Certainly agree. I remember the days when you could just copy a binary from one computer to another and it would just work™ Good times...