Forgetting about Rust for a second. Talking about dynamically linked libs in general.
Dynamic linking was an optimization which came about when memory was expensive. Memory is no longer expensive.
Is 1.3GB (or even 13GB) a lot on your hardware[1]?
According to "Do not prematurely optimize": Pretending we never had dynamic linking, and given today's hardware constraints[2], as a community would we choose to reimplement and universally adopt this optimization?
[1] Keep in mind that a single "modern" application, on average, weighs in the 10s of MBs or GBs.
[2] I'm talking about the general case, for the majority of OS distributions, ignoring the relatively exceptional case of embedded systems, which do in-fact still need it.
Dynamic linking was an optimization which came about when memory was expensive. Memory is no longer expensive.
Is 1.3GB (or even 13GB) a lot on your hardware[1]?
According to "Do not prematurely optimize": Pretending we never had dynamic linking, and given today's hardware constraints[2], as a community would we choose to reimplement and universally adopt this optimization?
[1] Keep in mind that a single "modern" application, on average, weighs in the 10s of MBs or GBs.
[2] I'm talking about the general case, for the majority of OS distributions, ignoring the relatively exceptional case of embedded systems, which do in-fact still need it.