[blinkingled]

Writing linkers must be incredibly rewarding - go has its own, there's mold, there's LLD, there's the OG GNU bfd LD and now Zig has one too! I am sure there's a Rust one too - Wild!

Every one of them is faster than the others too lol! Mold for one tries really hard to be GNU ld and to be useful as an independent linker most have to - I guess Zig/Go ones are purpose built so at least those don't duplicate GNU ld compatibility.

[usrnm]

Wait till you hear how many programming languages there are

[infogulch]

Sure, but one might imagine that linkers are generic and reusable, so you can just pick one off the shelf instead of making a new one 1-1 for each language. Empirically this line of reasoning seems to be incorrect.

[blinkingled]

Different programming languages are very obviously not the same thing - different cp command implementations are similar conceptually to having different linker implementations that all do the same thing. But you knew that so not sure if there was a point you were trying to make there.

[usrnm]

> Different programming languages are very obviously not the same thing

It isn't obvious to me at all. The difference between Java, C# and Go is about as important as the difference between Makita and Bosch for power tools. Yes, some people swear by one or the other, but by the end of the day it really doesn't matter