Writing New System Software
Language preferences and safety features aside, I for one am 100% convinced that a&#x2F;the upcoming language to rule &quot;systems programming&quot; (in a FOSS world with community participation) MUST have strong support for dynamic linking.<p>If you look at something like `apt-cache show podman | grep ^Built-Using:` (Output: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paste.debian.net&#x2F;plain&#x2F;1225449" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paste.debian.net&#x2F;plain&#x2F;1225449</a>) on Debian 11, you will see why. Imagine a few of those components shared between tens of packages, and security problems discovered im some. It&#x27;s got to be any package maintainer&#x27;s worst nightmare.