> (Thankfully full-blown simulation is often an option nowadays too) Yes, and I think its fair to assume that some backend to execute the x86-64 Linux ABI will

> (Thankfully full-blown simulation is often an option nowadays too) Yes, and I think its fair to assume that some backend to execute the x86-64 Linux ABI will out-live most readers. Projects like https://justine.lol/ape.html https://justine.lol/ape.html, https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-pack.html https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-pack.... or https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle do make it approachable to "bundle" a lot of software down to libc.