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Wild – A fast linker for Linux

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383 points hkalbasi | 2 comments | 24 Jan 25 16:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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throwaway106382 ◴[24 Jan 25 16:43 UTC] No.42814864[source]▶
> Mold is already very fast, however it doesn't do incremental linking and the author has stated that they don't intend to. Wild doesn't do incremental linking yet, but that is the end-goal. By writing Wild in Rust, it's hoped that the complexity of incremental linking will be achievable.

Can someone explain what is so special about Rust for this?

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ComputerGuru[dead post] ◴[24 Jan 25 16:48 UTC] No.42814916[source]▶
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1. nicce ◴[24 Jan 25 16:50 UTC] No.42814943[source]▶
I guess they meant that why write in Rust.
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2. ComputerGuru ◴[24 Jan 25 16:51 UTC] No.42814956[source]▶
You caught me as I was trying to delete/move the comment because I missed that.