I really want to statically link OpenGL and Vulkan for exactly this purpose, but neither use a wire protocol (unlike X11 or Wayland). The whole "loading library" scheme feels like hazing for any beginner graphics programmer on top of the already complex graphics APIs.

I know at least for OpenGL, not all graphics cards/drivers would implement the entire featureset. So there was a reasonable justification for the dynamic linking and bringing in functions one by one.

I think that a wire protocol could support that with a query response for supported versions and functions. The decision of dynamic linking removes the overhead of serialization, but removes the option of static linking.

Yeah, just my thought. Instead of all the effort and overhead and awful API of Win32 just statically link musl. Still, there are of course downsides and limitations to either approach.