ion and longevity, more programming language communities are prioritizing a language's ability to be packaged into static binaries. If my memory serves, Go really led this culture change, but other languages like Rust and Deno have embraced this idea as well. Now, it's time for Oak to do the same.</p><h2>Prior art</h2><p>Historically, static linking was not the norm. Programmers avoided it in favor of <em>dynamic linking</em>, which let many different programs share components to save on storage and memory.