linux ELF code is loading the ELF loader only. $ORIGIN may not be a good idea since that would add more ELF complexity to the kernel.

If we are honest with ourself, ELF is the core of the issue: for executables and dynamic libraries we _now_ know it is severely obsolete on modern hardware architectures.

I am currently using my own format, excrutiatingly simple, no loader, basically a program segment, "userland syscalls" with hardware CPU synchronization. I do wrap the executables into ELF capsules to run them transparently. So simple a small RFC will be enough.

With that, I discovered that the hard part is c++ and other similar languages which are very expensive in runtime infrastructure and linking complexity. I would need to build a mesa vulkan driver with that format, and it seems the blocker is c++ (and similar language namely with grotesque and absurd syntax complexity). Thx to valve to have removed a lot of c++, for less c++... would have been much better if plain and simple C.

I would love to learn more about this; I'm deeply interested in replacing ELF with something either simpler or maybe leveraging sqlite for much of the functionality.