Comment by devonkim

The JVM works this way after C programs popularized the precedent - refuse to run at all with a dynamic link error stating the shared library that was expected without any mention of what version of the library should be present in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH or that the shared library version expected actually doesn't match the ABI in some corner cases and silently fails during runtime. That's part of why customizable classloaders in the JVM exist.