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jfkebwjsbx on June 13, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at...

One can argue that using the default linker is a good choice, and that is a good argument, but I don’t see how that is definitional.

Btw, wasn’t Chrome and others switching soon to LLD?

steveklabnik on June 13, 2020 [–]

I mean “The MSVC target uses the MSVC linker so that’s why you need the MSCV linker.”

Yes, they are. Not sure how that’s relevant, though.

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