Pros and cons of dynamic linking versus static linking - here we go again

Regarding the ongoing discussion on the pros and cons of operating systems using dynamic linking of application provided vs static linking - Jesse Smith in the DistroWatch Q and A addressed most of the concerns I had with the original article, by Drew DeVault, that sparked this discussion, but I think the question of the disk space still needs to be addressed more fully. So: Wouldn't statically linked executables be huge? Not necessarily so - would they be larger? Sure - the original articles ...
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The API wars... who actually cares?

This is a public response to Johan Thelin's post "The API wars - 16 years later. His blog commenting system looks a bit broken and regardless - I think its an important enough discussion to publish here. The main premise of the article is that the web APIs have won the "API war" in the context of Joel's Spolsky's "How Microsoft lost the API war" article from 2014 but the main winner is the globally domineering Google and we should subvert their victory by moving to the new runtime - the WebAssem...
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Yet Another Cool Web Developer Resource

Need to work with keyboard events and not really sure what is the keycode/scancode for that specific key: https://keycode.info/ ...
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