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astrobe_ on July 22, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: The .a file is a relic: Why static archives were a...

Well, C and C++ together have around 7M repos, so about 10%. Actually not entirely esoteric, but Github is only a fraction of the world's codebase and users of these repos probably never looked in the makefile, so I'd say 10% of C/C++ developers knowing about this is a very optimistic estimate.

wtallis on July 22, 2025 [–]

Looking at GitHub is probably significantly undersampling the kinds of C projects that would be doing static linking, many of which pre-date GitHub.

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