On 26-07-2022 20:48, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote:
4. Convince Zig maintainers to perhaps maybe not join the ranks of Rust et al. and produce reusable shared libraries?
I'd like to clarify that Rust supports shared libraries (*) just fine, it's Cargo that insists on source code.
Looking at <https://gist.github.com/matu3ba/92e5df1166c51b3725dbd04f7ff1cb4e>, it might be similar with Zig, as that page is about 'the Zig caching system' and mentions Zir code, ABIs and objects.
(*) or, at least, rustc's version of static libraries, I haven't tested out shared libraries yet except for the first failed attempt; there might be problems with monomorphisation and macros or somehing. Some libraries, e.g. recent versions of rust-nom, also are written in such a way that appears to require LTO optimisation to be efficient, which appears to be non-trivial to be compatible with shared libraries without extra disk space.
Greetings, Maxime.
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