As feedback to my earlier posts about Social C and Social Java I got a link from Cory Benfield to an essay How Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn’t by Aria Beingessner. This proved very interesting for several reasons which I try to layout below. API stability, ABI stability, what are those, really? Aria, who works at Mozilla on Rust, talks about this in depth in her article. And as usual, when listening to someone who really knows a thing you find out that your own knowledge ...