Perhaps, but when I accidentally nuked my system by dd’ing to one of the hard drives, being able to install the exact same system back onto it by pointing the installer to my git repository was an excellent experience.

• Lisp is responsible for most of the parts of programming widely considered enjoyable.

• Fortran is still often used in some of our most performant libraries.

• POSIX shell was one of the most important parts of unix-like systems becoming how they are today, and it’s compatibility is still an invaluable glue for tying programs written in the 90’s to programs written today.

Statically linking is absolutely a tool we should use far more often, and one we should get better at supporting.

Is that why they prevented it from being open sourced? I thought I read a while back that they just wanted to keep the code in-house.

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