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

DevFeed: [Mold High Speed Linker Being Rewritten In Rust, Hopes To Be The Default Linker On Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/mold-high-speed-linker-being-rewritten-in-rust-hopes-to-be-the-default-linker-on-linux-12420.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-Linker-In-Rust-Coming>)

Author: Michael Larabel

Published: 2026-09-11T13:21:42Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Phoronix](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/phoronix.md>)

Topics: [Rust](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rust.md>), [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [toolchain](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/toolchain.md>)

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## AI overview

The Mold high-speed linker is being rewritten from C++ in Rust for Mold 3.0. Its goals include preserving Mold 2.x performance, improving safety, supporting missing linker-script features, and potentially adding incremental linking.

## Source excerpt

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...