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There is nothing special about GNU/Linux is that respect.

You would still build your code from source, and be very careful handling any dependencies you don't have the source for.

The worst kind of undefined behaviour you can have in C++ is ODR violations, and importing binaries is more likely than not to trigger them, unless you closely manage their ABI.




Yes, there is, the culture towards shipping binaries, or selling component libraries.


I think you two are talking past each other. He’s talking about hypotheticals, and you’re talking about what’s more common




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