Shared libraries
Shared libraries
Posted Nov 24, 2025 17:50 UTC (Mon) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)In reply to: Shared libraries by ballombe
Parent article: APT Rust requirement raises questions
In the short term, there's experiments like stabby and abi_stable looking at what it means to provide a well-defined ABI for a shared library written in Rust and intended to be consumed by other Rust programs.
There's also work coming from the other direction, of providing a way to deliberately indicate that you intend something to be ABI, and widening the number of things that have a stable ABI, which will hopefully meet the efforts to determine what a stable ABI definition "should" look like in the middle.
Unfortunately, all this takes time, motivation, and a lot of work; without more people helping, I could see it taking some time to get there.