Comment on A Special Kind of Hell: intmax_t in C and C++ (2020)parentComments−krastanov4yWasn't dynamical linking crucial 20 years ago, when drive space and bandwidth were expensive?−dralley4yIt's still pretty important today for things like security-critical libraries, libc, plugin systems, etc.However it is probably overused relative to the situations where it is genuinely useful.−smitty1e4yHence the increasing popularity of docker for interpreted projects.However, if we're decoupled from the system .so files, then the 'Hell' of the The Famous Article might be reduced to a Purgatory.
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Wasn't dynamical linking crucial 20 years ago, when drive space and bandwidth were expensive?
It's still pretty important today for things like security-critical libraries, libc, plugin systems, etc.
However it is probably overused relative to the situations where it is genuinely useful.
Hence the increasing popularity of docker for interpreted projects.
However, if we're decoupled from the system .so files, then the 'Hell' of the The Famous Article might be reduced to a Purgatory.