[benreesman]

Sure, there are use cases. Extensions to e.g. Python are a perfectly reasonable usecase for `dlopen` (hooking DNS on all modern Linux is...probably not for our benefit).

There are use cases for dynamic linking. It's just user-hostile as a mandatory default for a bunch of boring and banal reasons: KitWare doesn't want `pkg-config` to work because who would use CMake if they had straightforward alternatives. The Docker Industrial complex has no reason to exist in a world where Linus has been holding the line of ABI compatibility for 30 years.

Dynamic linking is fine as an option, I think it's very reasonable to ship a `.so` alongside `.a` and other artifacts.

Forcing it on everyone by keeping `pkg-config` and `musl` broken is a more costly own goal for computing that Tony Hoare's famous billion dollar mistake.