alt Hacker NewsThe "just" is doing a lot of heavylifting here (as detailed in the article), especially for anything that's not a trivial cmdline tool.
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qznc • today at 10:36 AM
Ack. I went down that rabbit hole to "just" build a static Python: https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/python_bazel.html
In my experience it seems to be an issue caused by optimizations in legacy code that relied on dlopen to implement a plugin system, or help with startup, since you could lazy load said plugins on demand and start faster.
If you forego the requirement of a runtime plugin system, is there anything realistically preventing greenfield projects from just being fully statically linked, assuming their dependencies dont rely on dlopen ?