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[Chris Frey]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 08:59:38AM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> And that is a sign of the wider trend of reverting back to static linking
> and distribution of packages as monolithic blobs.
> 
> As if we (collectively) lost all the hard earned lessons that the UNIX
> (then Linux) communities learned in the late 80s and early 90s about
> shared objects (.so), dynamic linking and dependency management.

After reading this article:

	https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2021/02/19/the-modern-packagers-security-nightmare/

I realized that Go and Rust are still in the toy language development
stage, despite the loudness of their fans claiming to be better.
The ability to produce dynamic libraries and binaries and a stable
ABI is a worthwhile task that they have not achieved yet.

These missing features are causing Rust all kinds of headaches in trying
to integrate with the Linux kernel, as they hit roadblocks caused by
an immature popular language (Rust) marrying the MOST mature
popular language (C).

The list of Rust features too unstable for the kernel just yet:

	https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/2

Basically, the usual "rewrite it from scratch" problems that every new
project goes through, from early days Gentoo not signing packages, to
early days pip not doing it either.  They leave the hard stuff til last. :-)
Admittedly, even Debian didn't implement package signing until a
number of releases in, as I recall, but Debian sure is mature now.

- Chris