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by VorpalWay 166 days ago
C++ already killed it: templated code is only instantiated where it is used, so with C++ it is a random mix of what goes into the separate shared library and what goes into the application using the library. This makes ABI compatibility incredibly fragile in practise.

And increasingly, many C++ libraries are header only, meaning they are always statically linked.

Haskell (or GHC at least) is also in a similar situation to Rust as I understand it: no stable ABI. (But I'm not an expert in Haskell, so I could be wrong.)

C is really the outlier here.