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Distribution. Convention.

We have a lot of container formats. Movie files incorporates video, audio streams, subtitles. MP3 files contains ID3, ID3v2 metadata. JPEG - Exif, PNG - metadata chunks, HTML - <script>, <style>, <meta>. ISO 9660 is a folder. ZIP is a folder with compression. DOCX is ZIP. These can be represented as folders and I would argue some users would like it a lot.

We use modules as files in python and ruby, yet it is a problem and docker solves it.

Zig specific - I do not think you advise to create library file for each function. As such it'd solve nothing - they'd have to patch libraries. And maybe they already have do that.



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