Yes, But it would at least be harder. C has so many weird quirks and edge cases - including decades of legacy mechanisms (like IFUNC) that almost nobody today understands.

The underhanded C contest would be a lot less entertaining in rust. Thats a good thing.

It wouldn't solve the underlying problem permanently. But I don't think there's any slam-dunk solution here. I'll take any small wins where we can get them.

As far as I can tell, Rust _does_ support dynamic linking. You can both compile rust code to .so and link against existing shared objects. What are you talking about?

>The compiler supports various methods to link crates together both statically and dynamically. This section will explore the various methods to link crates together, and more information about native libraries can be found in the FFI section of the book.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/linkage.html

Rust does support dynamic linking, it's just not that useful because of the unstable ABI. You can dynamically link against C code, or Rust code presenting a C ABI, without issue, and you can dynamically link against Rust code if you accept the inherent limitations at the moment