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If the bridge/proxy scrubbed the protocol, it could be opt in on the platforms that Rust supports. Unsupported platforms of course would still be vulnerable. But security isn't all or nothing. It really is too bad that the C backend to LLVM fell into disrepair, it would be so useful.

I see this pattern where an Open Source project supports so many platforms and old versions of operating systems that security bugs become pervasive for a variety of reasons, 1) no knowledge of old platform, 2) hard for new devs to test 3) piles of ifdefs make code complex, filled with magic. There are probably at most handfuls of users on those niche platforms.

Maybe it would be nice to freeze a build environment in a container, snapshot the repo and make a legacy source archive should someone want to support Beos or OpenVMS in the future.