ss constraining, and those were trumped in priority by how easy it was to distribute and deploy programs reliably. Ahead-of-time compiled languages achieve this self-contained-ness quite differently than interpreted languages with large runtimes. So while Go was the first major language (if I'm mistaken, please do correct me) in this recent drive towards static linking, it's not very helpful to study how Go builds its binaries. Instead, I took inspiration for <code>oak pack</code> from similar initiatives i