Why doesn GHC use shared libraries?
GHC does provide shared libraries, currently only on MacOS X. We are working on making shared libraries work on other platforms. However, GHC-compiled libraries are very tightly coupled, which means it’s unlikely you’d be able to swap out a shared library for a newer version unless it was compiled with exactly the same compiler and set of libraries as the old version.
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