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Re:Go 1.21 will (likely) have a static toolchain on Linux by masklinn on Saturday April 08, 2023 @03:56AM (#35491471)
> static linking to it is possible (GNU libc being the exception due to how it is designed)

Apple does not ship a statically linkable libSystem (I don’t think they ever have), and openbsd is trying to move away from it to tie up origin verification.

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Re:Go 1.21 will (likely) have a static toolchain on Linux by pjmlp on Saturday April 08, 2023 @04:30AM (#35491618)
Hence the "however..." part of my comment.

Also take into consideration all the other surviving commercial UNIXes, POSIX embedded OSes and POSIX environments for mainframes and micro-computers.

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