[Aeolos]

Yet in practice this works fine for all intents and purposes.

Sure, you might get a loading error if you try to run your Ubuntu 24.04-compiled executable on Ubuntu 18.04 if you use the default toolchain. tTat’s exactly the same as C or C++, only much easier to fix in rust by rustup-installing the right tool chain.

Compiling on Ubuntu 18.04 and running on 24.04 is absolutely not an issue. Same for windows.

In practice this is really not a problem, especially for cargo libraries that you anyway build from source.

[pjmlp]

I would say the same regarding dynamic linking, which is why most OSes have moved away from being static linking only executables, except embedded in the cases where it is a single blob uploaded into the device.

Not even modern 3D graphics APIs, none of them, work with static linking, yet another area static linking advocates have to accept the industry has moved on.