One thing that came up in this issue was, if the default Node distributions were to ship with a shared build, how should it be structured?

Basically boils down to:

• Should the node executable just be a small binary that links against libnode OR
• Should the distribution ship with a statically linked node executable with no shared dependencies, and a separate libnode that users can link against?

Discussion was pretty contentious and I think it is worth its own issue!