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Apparently there is a dynamic linking ABI for Rust too, but it is not stable enough to use yet for distros like Debian.

https://wiki.debian.org/StaticLinking#Rust https://lwn.net/Articles/797616/ https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2603

I note that the PR for Rust symbol mangling got merged, but it looks like it isn't the default yet, they are waiting on external tools supporting it.

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>but it is not stable enough That's the problem. Is still, after all this years, unstable.

Of course you can do dynamic linking without the way that I previously described, but that library will be highly tight to a specific version of the compiler. I think that the biggest problem is dealing with product types for that matter.

Reading through the status tracking bug, it sounds like the ABI is now standardised, but they aren't changing the default to the newly standard ABI yet, because they are waiting on external tools to support it. That said, you could definitely use it today without worrying about the compiler version it seems.

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