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by pabs3 1740 days ago
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
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steveklabnik 1740 days ago
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.
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raggi 1739 days ago
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.

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zozbot234 1740 days ago
Rust's stable ABI is the C ABI. I don't really see this changing in the foreseeable future.
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