> (The people who write linkers also need this book, of course. But all linker writers in the world could probably fit in one room, and half of them already have copies because they reviewed the manuscript.)
~ "Linkers & Loaders" by John R. Levine
This is pretty scary IMO.
Fortunately they're not all in one room at the same time, but like, what if nobody wants to learn how to write linkers for a few decades?
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@wolf480pl Judging by how rust is going we won't get any new linker writers ever. We'll just keep stacking abstractions on top of each other.
@swiley Zig is writing its own linker. Golang has already written 2. So it's not terrible.