Static linking may be bad for security but good for saving hours of frustration. It&#x27;s a trade-off and it&#x27;s not clear that security is automatically the most important thing always.<p>Just look at any forum about some open source software. There&#x27;ll usually be endless posts from people complaining that they can&#x27;t compile it because of some weird dependency errors. These are really widespread and time-wasting problems.