XDG-APP and D

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 21 April 2016 at 18:55:23 UTC, Gerald wrote:
> For those not familiar, xdg-app is a Linux virtualization 
> system targeted at desktop apps, it's been under pretty heavy 
> development and is available for use in Gnome 3.20.
>
> Mathias Clausen recently wrote a blog entry about creating his 
> first xdg-app and the application he chose to play with was 
> Terminix, a terminal emulator, which is written in D. He had 
> some D specific challenges to deal with which may be 
> interesting to others looking to support xdg-app.
>
> You can read his blog entry here:
>
> https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2016/04/15/my-first-xdg-app.

Can someone explain to me how xdg-app provides a significantly 
different experience to static linking (in a language like C or 
D)? I guess there's the old "what about libc?".