On the other hand, applications also "benefit" when the system updater introduces breakage (library incompatibilities, regressions). To be clear, D can use the

On the other hand, applications also "benefit" when the system updater introduces breakage (library incompatibilities, regressions). To be clear, D can use the shared C libraries of your system just fine since the beginning. When D people talk about shared library support, they mean: create a D shared library, which is used by C/C++ code. The tricky part is stuff like initializing the runtime.