It's a common approach in language design to require this though. Rust has made very similar design choices due to its (current) lack of stable ABIs. IIRC some

It's a common approach in language design to require this though. Rust has made very similar design choices due to its (current) lack of stable ABIs. IIRC some hash of the compiler version is included in built libraries and prevents accidental linking. You need to rebuild the world for every toolchain upgrade.