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Re:Proposals for Go 1.15 by jwalgenbach on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @10:09AM (#22181310)
One of the reasons I use go is the production of static, self contained binaries. Wouldn't binary artifacts make that much more difficult?
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Re:Proposals for Go 1.15 by pjmlp on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @10:16AM (#22181383)
Why should it? Static compiling has been a thing since compilers exist.

Dynamic linking only became mainstream in the mid-90s.

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Re:Proposals for Go 1.15 by apta on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @04:58PM (#22186309)
You can build self-contained Java JAR files for a while now.
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