Shared libraries
Shared libraries
Posted Nov 27, 2025 1:06 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46)In reply to: Shared libraries by Cyberax
Parent article: APT Rust requirement raises questions
> So, correct me if I'm wrong, everything that solves the users' problems with updates is bad?
Ladders are really, really useful for climbing to the top of a one or two-floor building.
But for 3-4 floors, portable ladders are no longer an option. Beyond 5.. ladders of any sort are worthless and a completely different solution must be employed.
In case you can't follow this analogy, something that is optimal for one application, or even a couple of applications, rapidly runs into fundamental scaling problems when you try to scale it to dozens or hundreds of applications.
But application writers don't care about bigger picture problems; they only care about *their* application.