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

Library files are not the problem, deploying an SDK as precompiled binary blobs is ;)

(I bet that .a/.lib files were originally never really meant for software distribution, but only as intermediate file format between a compiler and linker, both running as part of the same build process)

eyalitki on July 22, 2025 [–]

Yeah, but when the product is an SDK, and customers develop on top of it (using their own toolchains) there isn't a lot left for me to play with.

triknomeister on July 22, 2025 | [–]

SDK could ship the source, lol, stop kneecapping your consumers.

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