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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by undeveloper on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @02:42AM (#46509712)
the rust abi is explicitly unstable. there are community projects to bring dynamic linking, but it's mostly not worth it.
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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by goku12 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @07:05AM (#46511300)
That is not correct. Dynamic linking is natively supported in Rust. How else do you make modules for scripting languages like Python (using PyO3) [1]? It uses the stable C API (cdylib).

[1] https://pyo3.rs/v0.15.1/#using-rust-from-python

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