@angdraug name all of the architectures you've ever used Rust on

I bet it's x86_64 and maybe arm64. I doubt it includes i686 or even ARMv7.

As someone who actually HAS used Rust on a variety of platforms, I can assure you that its portability story is pretty garbage. Go has, in my experience, been much better in that regard. But it doesn't matter, because this is a strawman: no one is rewriting codebases from Go to Rust. The real alternative that I am talking about here is C.

@sir @angdraug A language which, mind you, is infamous for being flexible enough to be compiled on just about anything you can throw at it (see for example https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-11-15-c-portability.html )

@allison @sir @angdraug@mastodon.social You can also go a step higher with a language that has been compiled to C, C++, Java, Ada, and SystemC (off the top of my head) https://xtuml.org/