t the &quot;static initialization order fiasco&quot;, and
<a href="http://ericlippert.com/2013/02/06/static-constructors-part-one/">Eric Lippert&#39;s blog</a> for the challenges in C#, which also has this
feature.</p>

<p>A nice replacement is <a href="https://crates.io/crates/lazy_static">lazy_static</a>.</p>

<h2 id='the-language-does-not-require-a-runtime' class='section-header'><a href='#the-language-does-not-require-a-runtime'>1.5 The language does not require a runtime</a></h2>
<p>See the above entry