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0 pointsExpurple9mo ago0 comments

> Many binaries also depend on shared libraries.

Yeah, and those are also the opposite of "solid" :) That's why I qualified with "static". I'm so glad that Go and Rust promote static linking as the default (ignoring glibc).

> You can (and probably should) embed the runtime and all dependencies in the program (as is easily done in Java).

Congrats to the Java team and users, then. That makes it similar to the Go approach to binaries and the runtime, which I approve

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pron9mo ago

> Yeah, and those are also the opposite of "solid" :)

So if that's what the author meant by "solid", i.e. few environmental dependencies, then it's not really about "native" or not, but about how the language/runtime is designed. Languages that started out as "scripting" languages often do rely on the environment a lot, but that's not how, say, Java or .NET work.

> I'm so glad that Go and Rust promote static linking as the default (ignoring glibc).

That doesn't work so well (and so usually not done) once you have a GUI, although I guess you consider the GUI to be part of the kernel.