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Of course... and I'm not suggesting that every app in a linux distro should be as such. You can dynamically link with Rust, Go, etc. That said, for one of the 3-4 GUI apps that most people use, the distro process tends to leave people with relatively old versions missing critical bug fixes or features.

I tend to keep my host OS pretty bare, and most of my runtime apps in Flatpak and the stuff I'm working on in Docker.



> You can dynamically link with Rust

Do you have experience with that, or do you say it because you believe it's possible? Genuinely interested, because I have been looking into it and my conclusion was that it does not really do what I expect from "dynamic linking".

See e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40665343 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40661874




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