> On May 16, 2016, at 4:27 PM, Eric Wing via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm not an expert in the Linux communities needs and desires. That said, >> from what I understand, they don’t care at all about ABI stability, since >> everything is typically built from source. >> >> -Chris >> >> > > Not exactly true. (I care.) > > Video games (e.g. Steam/Linux) care deeply about ABI stability. And > Android cares deeply about ABI stability. Also, kind of emergent > behavior, Raspberry Pi Raspbian has kind of built a platform that > happens to have some ABI stability for now. > > Thanks, > Eric
ABI stability is also central to eventually removing the need to always ship the runtime along with our binaries. Charles
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