Comment by mustache_kimono
12 hours ago
> You almost certainly have a bunch of devices containing a microcontroller that runs an architecture not targeted by LLVM.
This is exactly what I'm saying. Do you think HW drives SW or the other way around? When Rust is in the Linux kernel, my guess is it will be very hard to find new HW worth using, which doesn't have some Rust support.
In embedded, HW drives SW much more than the other way around. Most microcontrollers are not capable of running a Linux kernel as it is, even with NoMMU. The ones that are capable of this are overwhelmingly ARM or RISC-V these days. There’s not a long list of architectures supported by the modern Linux kernel but not LLVM/Rust.