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Re:Restic – Backups Done Right by eeZah7Ux on Thursday October 31, 2019 @07:26PM (#21414843)
> With a Go program one just drops a statically compiled binary in $PATH and it just works.

Until one of the statically compiled dependencies needs a security fix.

Then people realize why shared objects where invented.

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Re:Restic – Backups Done Right by IshKebab on Friday November 01, 2019 @02:28AM (#21416630)
That's not why they were invented, and it's not even a good reason to use them.
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