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> Just software, running, forever.

Until your users realize that if there was a security vulnerability which was fixed, a system upgrade is not enough. They will have to either hope that you haven't moved on, or build things themselves. But then, thats not a problem with Go specifically, thats a general issue with "static link all things".

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Ah, but what if the updated shared lib broke other apps depending on the old version? Pros and cons.

> Pros and cons

Exactly. Which is why I don't get the "static linking is the best solution for deploying applications". You need to be able to do both. For example when building a C/C++ application you can decide if you want shared libs or static builds.

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