Just a sidenote, a part of this article reminded me of the RFC2110 - The naming of hosts, an old april fools RFC.<p><a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2100" rel="nofollow">https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2100</a>
I wondered this myself 2 years ago and went with fat binaries (uber jars, actually.) Unfortunately fat binaries aren't an option for many languages...