Comment by DrScientist

According to your link ( great link BTW ) Rob Pike said dynamic linking for X was a net negative on memory and speed and only had a tiny advantage in disk space.

My preference is to bring dependencies in at the source code level and compile them in to the app - stops the library level massive dependency trees ( A need part of B but because some other part of B needs C our dependency tool brings in C, and then D and so on ).