[invokestatic]

I just want to point out that Windows actually has similar packaging problems. For some reason, Windows didn’t ship with C/C++/.NET runtimes. So practically every app ships with either a copy of the runtime DLLs or an installer to install those runtimes globally. Every Windows installation inevitably gets a million msvcrt dlls across random places, never getting any security updates. I believe this situation is a lot better on recent versions of Windows 10/11.

[JonChesterfield]

That lets Microsoft break ABI on every release if they see fit. I thought the model was to install the runtimes globally, so you only have one copy of each version, but you install whatever version a given program wants. So you end up with lots, all somewhat different to each other.

It has different tradeoffs to the glibc model.