shared libraries and Rust

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

Yesterday, I did a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation.

I have about 2000 non-library packages on most of my Debian machines.  If
these all were written in Rust and only statically-linked (recall that
Rust doesn't support shared libraries out-of-the-box), and a security
exploit were found in a common library, I'd have to update 2000 packages.

Anyway, the Rust people do plan to support shared libraries at some point.
They are waiting for more wide-spread use of Rust and a stable ABI
(Application Binary Interface).