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Yeah and that Java stuff is super cool; didn't Sun float a CPU with support for Java bytecode a long time ago? But they don't run a "full" JVM; I more or less mean "can run Apache Commons".

And yeah most of the platforms Rust doesn't support are either legacy or very niche. It's an interesting topic though; platform developers and manufacturers seem to have no problem shipping tweaked C compilers (usually some awful old GCC fork), but I've yet to see them use LLVM. I think Rust is hamstrung a little by having only the one compiler, but it's an entirely unfair expectation of such a young and ambitious project. Plus, it's hard to outdo LLVM.

We'll see how it goes. Maybe we'll see a lot less platform proliferation as mindshare moves away from C, but it's also possible that LLVM will just grow its platform support.

I also wonder if we'll see industry become a little more relaxed in its requirements. Like requiring multiple implementations, language standardization, or security/development standardization and verification. Most of this stuff grew out of C's instability, but with a more stable language maybe it doesn't matter? Or there are parallels in the web world too, like multiple browser vendors have to be on board with a feature for it to eventually become a standard, whereas with Rust it's pretty much whatever the Rust community decides and LLVM supports. Do we still care about standards and multiple implementations? Are the roadblocks worth it? I feel like on one hand I think they are, but also that if we accept them then we're kind of implicitly accepting C forever.