Rust is the future of systems programming, C is the new Assembly (Packt)

Posted Aug 28, 2019 16:55 UTC (Wed) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)
In reply to: Rust is the future of systems programming, C is the new Assembly (Packt) by Archimedes
Parent article: Rust is the future of systems programming, C is the new Assembly (Packt)

> solely supporting static builds

Rust does support dynamic builds, rustc itself is composed of several libraries which are usually dynamically linked together.

The reason it's not used often elsewhere is the lack of a stable ABI, which means everything must be compiled with the exact same version of rustc. There is some work being done on that, starting with name mangling (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2603).