[kwlug-disc] Zig's guy interview

[Mikalai Birukou]

>> 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.

And by memory, you mean disk storage. File system cache memory.

Cause, if it is a memory of running instances/processes, than "shared" becomes a concern.

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

Was an actual injection step in that xz story using a dynamic linking process? Mangled, whatever. But this is an attack point.
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