You can statically link binaries. Plan9 does only that, Rust and Go only support static linking (by default). The problem is that you need a good meta-data system that will allow you to track what was linked into each binary, so that if there is a security issue you know exactly what needs to be rebuilt. I don’t think we have such a system yet. If I have a bug in OpenSSL I just update that, restart servers using TLS and it is patched.
if needed, whats wrong with static linking?
You can statically link binaries. Plan9 does only that, Rust and Go only support static linking (by default). The problem is that you need a good meta-data system that will allow you to track what was linked into each binary, so that if there is a security issue you know exactly what needs to be rebuilt. I don’t think we have such a system yet. If I have a bug in OpenSSL I just update that, restart servers using TLS and it is patched.
Fantastic idea! This would be a really important project to see developed!
Just nitpicking here, but last week i learned golang binaries are not statically-linked (at least not completely).