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Re:A Few More Reasons Rust Compiles Slowly by pjmlp on Monday June 29, 2020 @06:14PM (#23683942)
Apple also took a multi-year effort of designing a stable ABI for Swift as means to enable exactly this scenario.
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Re:A Few More Reasons Rust Compiles Slowly by lilyball on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @02:26AM (#23687205)
The stable ABI was so Apple could ship Swift in the system. The fact that it enabled binary dependencies was more of a freebie.
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