I actually have been waiting for all of suckless software to be mainstream. While some of them are defectors to Plan 9. Uriel was in that community. For know we have Debian and FreeBSD. OpenBSD for the freest.
Static linking makes sense if you only ever use 1 copy of the library at a time. glibc may be bloated but your few hundred or more statically linked executables are going to take even more space.