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Then it's not a distinction between dynamic linking and static linking. It's a distinction of "only link against things you yourself build and ship".

It's nothing to do with closed or open source. I don't want to build a very big world, and ship a huge amount of binary code that can be found in distributions, to make a 2038-safe app.



It's not that big a world. And ststic linking in particular opens up a ton of other opportunities, such as monomorphization.




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