PhobosV3+ Fundamental Elements

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On Friday, 18 September 2026 at 19:09:38 UTC, libxmoc wrote:
> On Friday, 18 September 2026 at 18:33:41 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
> Andrew Cattermole wrote:
>> On 19/09/2026 6:27 AM, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote:
>>> On Friday, 18 September 2026 at 16:46:36 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
>>> Andrew Cattermole wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>> 
>>> What is the issue with static libs?
>>
>> The primary issue is you lose ability to load shared libraries 
>> that depend upon it.
>>
>> Which is an important feature of web servers, GUI toolkits and 
>> game engines.
>>
>> If you know and understand these limitations, building it 
>> yourself with dub shouldn't be an issue.
>>
>> Also we'll likely end up shipping libraries that would 
>> conflict if it were a static library. I have a couple of 
>> Luna's in mind as part of a GUI toolkit.
>
> Just ship source code, I see 0 valid reasons to go with shared 
> libraries.
>
> Let's not repeat dotnet's mistake of shipping programs with 
> bazillions of dll's.
>
> They learned it the hard way when Go started to eat their 
> lunch. They now brag about single static AOT executables in 
> their marketing ;).

ssl and malloc should probably still be shared
Im a little annoyed that raylib is shared but like opengl should 
be shared and unfortunately the gpu drivers in there infinite 
wisdom forces even worse trade offs on us