[brundolf]

Is dynamically linking Rust's standard library officially-supported or did you have to hack around that? I know static-linking is the default but I've never looked into doing otherwise

[steveklabnik]

The flag to dynamically link dependencies exists, and is part of the compiler's stable flags, but I'm not sure how much it's actually used, or how well it actually works.

[pabs3]

Hmm, an LWN comment posted on the Debian wiki claims there are ABI stability issues, but they are being worked on:

https://lwn.net/Articles/797616/ https://wiki.debian.org/StaticLinking#Rust

[steveklabnik]

Correct, the ABI is not stable. Given that they build a base system with a single rustc, that's not an immediate concern, though of course, a more stable ABI helps dynamic linking be more relevant.

[raggi]

The problem they'll have is that they don't update the whole system atomically, so the generations of different packages may be different.

A distribution like Clear or Nix could probably wrangle things appropriately.

[zozbot234]

Rust's stable ABI is the C ABI. I don't really see this changing in the foreseeable future.

[raggi]

It works well in terms of programs working. It has similar challenges to C++ that various commonly used abstractions end up producing a lot of code on the program side regardless. It's nonetheless worthwhile, if you have enough programs and resource constraints.