[saagarjha]

The interests of people writing new language toolchains sadly does not seem to extend to supporting older platforms. This doesn't mean that they are not important, it just means that that they are not important to the people writing the new language toolchains.

[wmf]

It's not a matter of interest; if an embedded platform matters they should be willing to pay someone to port Rust.

[saagarjha]

…or they can just continue using C.

[gpm]

And not be surprised when open source maintainers don't go out of their way to continue supporting their poorly supported platform...