On 26-07-2022 20:48, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote:
> 4. Convince Zig maintainers to perhaps maybe not join the ranks of Rust
> et al. and produce reusable shared libraries?

I'd like to clarify that Rust supports shared libraries (*) just fine, 
it's Cargo that insists on source code.

Looking at 
<https://gist.github.com/matu3ba/92e5df1166c51b3725dbd04f7ff1cb4e>, it 
might be similar with Zig, as that page is about 'the Zig caching 
system' and mentions Zir code, ABIs and objects.

(*) or, at least, rustc's version of static libraries, I haven't tested 
out shared libraries yet except for the first failed attempt; there 
might be problems with monomorphisation and macros or somehing. Some 
libraries, e.g. recent versions of rust-nom, also are written in such a 
way that appears to require LTO optimisation to be efficient, which 
appears to be non-trivial to be compatible with shared libraries without 
extra disk space.

Greetings,
Maxime.