[kwlug-disc] Zig's guy interview

[Chris Frey]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 05:23:48PM -0700, Ron wrote:
> 1. How else to run two different versions of an application, each using
>    different library versions?

You can install as many shared library versions as you want.
Multiple major versions can run side by side.
It's usually only the dev symlink that conflicts, but there are
ways around that.


> It's not the 1980s any more, we do some things differently now. For one
> thing, there's been exponential growth in software choices where
> incompatibilities can arise.

I'd rather share memory across as many shared libraries as possible,
than have multiple slightly different libc's and libz's and libssl's
statically linked in unsharable apps.

It may not be the 80's, but memory size still matters to some.
In most cases, I view static linking == waste.

- Chris