Shared libraries and dynamic linking make writing FFI wrappers in other languages possible. If every library were statically linked, I wouldn't be able to writ

Shared libraries and dynamic linking make writing FFI wrappers in other languages possible. If every library were statically linked, I wouldn't be able to write things like this: https://github.com/mike-bourgeous/mb-sound-jackffi https://github.com/mike-bourgeous/mb-sound-jackffi