I agree very lot with what you wrote and I think what annoys me the most is the unpredictability of side effects, where maintainers of libraries push debug envi

I agree very lot with what you wrote and I think what annoys me the most is the unpredictability of side effects, where maintainers of libraries push debug environment variables or similar hacks into their production libraries. As long as this keeps happening due to the concept failure of how shared libraries are used for both active development and runtime execution, there won't be an easy fix available. The stubborness of C++ developers not seeing that there is two kinds of different users, devs and endusers, is what also annoys me a lot. I understand their intent to make development and debugging easy. But honestly, that should not be the job of the developer of a library and rather be part of the development toolchain. If the toolchain cannot fulfill this need, then the concept of binary distribution itself (aka FFI/C ABI/ELF) is wrong and needs to change. The "never change C" mentality is what got us here, where hundreds of developers rewrite everything in Rust/Go/Zig, hoping that there is an end in sight...only to realize that at some point they have to build a different OS from the ground up to actually be able to really fix it.