It is surprising that the recent compiled languages go static by default, given that they are "dependency forest languages" : it is really easy to go get some go-get-maintained package rather than packaging it by hand or wait someone else package it for you, and then use it.

So this makes dependencies use other dependencies for free, as the whole chain is automatic and works. Yet the whole thing uses static binaries.

Does the "use dynamic libraries for easier updates" argument still stands when we have dependency-heavy compiled languages that still go static?