* Kevin Kofler via devel:

> Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> * Kevin Kofler via devel:
>> 
>>> (And for the record, I also think that Go and Rust should not work
>>> that way either! It is possible to build shared libraries of Go code,
>>> at least one Go toolchain supports it.)
>> 
>> There is no stable Go ABI.  Even minor updates change ABI because type
>> sizes and struct offsets change and are inlined across shared object
>> boundaries.  You have to rebuild all reverse dependencies to avoid ABI
>> mismatches.  Go's compatibility guarantees only apply at the source
>> level and do not preclude the addition of new struct fields, for
>> example.
>
> The same goes for OCaml and yet we still manage to ship almost everything in 
> OCaml dynamically linked.

Interesting.  Could you provide an example of such a dynamically linked
binary?

Thanks,
Florian
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