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Re:Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software by saagarjha on Thursday February 18, 2021 @03:00PM (#26184670)
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.
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Re:Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software by wmf on Thursday February 18, 2021 @05:19PM (#26186533)
It's not a matter of interest; if an embedded platform matters they should be willing to pay someone to port Rust.
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Re:Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software by saagarjha on Thursday February 18, 2021 @05:22PM (#26186579)
…or they can just continue using C.
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Re:Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software by gpm on Thursday February 18, 2021 @07:16PM (#26187740)
And not be surprised when open source maintainers don't go out of their way to continue supporting their poorly supported platform...
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