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benreesman on Aug 14, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Oasis: Small statically-linked Linux system

They realized that they had goofed like 25-30 years ago and have been battling their own monster ever since: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/dynamic-linking/versioned-....

I take the authors of a disaster more seriously when they say it's a disaster, not less.

pjmlp on Aug 15, 2022 [–]

And yet the same authors designed Inferno and Limbo, where dynamic loading is everywhere, even at language level.

Talk about being serious.

Volt on Aug 16, 2022 | [–]

You gave it away by saying "dynamic loading" instead of "dynamic linking". They're okay with one, but not the other.

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