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Mold High Speed Linker Being Rewritten In Rust, Hopes To Be The Default Linker On Linux


The Mold high performance linker that typically outperforms the likes of LLVM lld, GNU LD, Wild, and others is being rewritten in the Rust programming language and also has an ambitious goal of being adopted as the default linker on Linux systems.

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