"fringe platforms which can't even run a Rust compiler"
"fringe platforms which can't even run a Rust compiler"
Posted Feb 13, 2021 19:38 UTC (Sat) by sthibaul (✭ supporter ✭, #54477)In reply to: "fringe platforms which can't even run a Rust compiler" by mathstuf
Parent article: Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo
I'm not saying that platform shouldn't bother porting more than a C/C++ compiler.
There is room for a middle ground between "you have to do a lot of work to port Rust to your platform" and "you only need a C compiler and Posix environment to port Rust to your platform".
That said, the free software ecosystem has historically only roughly needed a C compiler to get perl, python, etc. which helped a lot various platform projects to get stuff working.
If the bar is raised too much, the possibility of interesting projects lowers.
If bash/gcc/gdb/etc. were not easy to port in early 90s, we would just not have Linux today.
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