The libc is absolutely part of the operating system. Some people and tools go out of their way to avoid using it, but they are completely mistaken to do so. Go

The libc is absolutely part of the operating system. Some people and tools go out of their way to avoid using it, but they are completely mistaken to do so. Go in particular has wasted a huge amount of effort on this absolutely pointless exercise. And not just libc - on a typical unix, there are a small number of other libraries which constitute part of the operating system, like libm, libdl, and libpthread. They are part of the means by which the operating system delivers the POSIX environment. You're right that the JVM is a dependency, and that there is very poor versioning support for it in production. Everywhere i've worked, we've come up with ad-hoc solutions for it, and none of them have been very good.