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I don’t mean Dylibs like you find on macOS, I mean loading a binary lib from an arbitrary directory and being able to use it, without compiling it into the prog

I don’t mean Dylibs like you find on macOS, I mean loading a binary lib from an arbitrary directory and being able to use it, without compiling it into the program. It’s been some time since I looked into this so I wanted to be clear on what I meant. I’d be elated to be wrong though

Groxx 9mo ago
Both handle that just fine. Go does this via cgo, and has for over a decade. You do still need to write the interfacing code, but that's true for all languages.
- vlovich123 9mo ago
  Then by that argument Rust also supports dynamic linking. Actually it’s even better because that approach sacrifices less performance (if done well) than cgo inherently implies.
  - Groxx 9mo ago
    It was built to do that, yes
  - josephg 9mo ago
    Well, Rust does support dynamic linking. It just doesn’t (yet) offer a stable ABI. So you need to either use C FFI over the dynamic linking bridge, or make sure all linked libraries are compiled with the same version of the rust compiler.