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Rust wants to fix this, but it's an extremely hard problem and other tasks received higher priority.

See "How Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't" for details: https://faultlore.com/blah/swift-abi/



Thanks for that referral.

On a side note: I like Swift for the most part, but the last time I looked at upcoming language features they seemed like a kitchen-sink approach that's bloating the language and would better have been left to libraries. I've read this sentiment in more than one place, too.




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