Why we need a RC here for thread-local static variable?

[npuichigo]

fahrenheit/src/lib.rs

Line 24 in 3f2f133

static REACTOR: Rc<EventLoop> = Rc::new(EventLoop::new());

I'm a newbie of Rust and kindly ask why we still need a rc here. For lifetime, it's 'static and is safe to use. For shared ownership, we can still have multiple immutable reference to it.

[hieunguyent12]

Have you ever figured it out? I am wondering the same thing.