On: The dangers of streaming across versions of glibc: A cautionary tale (2014)

[butterisgood]

Static linking can be good.

[waynecochran → butterisgood]

Of course if you have two applications communicating with each other that are statically linked with different version of the library you can still have inconsistency problems.

[CamperBob2 → waynecochran]

That's more a protocol design problem than anything else.