[copsarebastards]

>> Computers don't have spirits

> But standards committee do.

Agreed. Which is why you should choose a language which was standardized by a standards committee whose goals better align with your goals.

> I doubt rust could be ported to a 8bit PIC microcontroller, or to a 6502 keeping reasonable performance characteristics or letting the programmer take advantage of the platform quirks.

I don't think that's true; I think that the current state of Rust tools is such that this is true now, but it's nothing inherent to the design of the language, and I think you'll be able to do quite a bit with Rust in the situations you describe when the tools around Rust are more mature. I can't really speak to this more because I'm not sure why you think this can't be done.