Gentlemen there's no need to argue because you're both right. Yes, Rust linkage is predominantly static. However in order to link libc dynamically on System V,

Gentlemen there's no need to argue because you're both right. Yes, Rust linkage is predominantly static. However in order to link libc dynamically on System V, it officially speaking needs to be a dynamic object rather than an executable, in most cases. I just checked on my system with a Rust binary to confirm. The Elf64_Ehdr::e_type is set to ET_DYN rather than ET_EXEC.