Re:Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us"
by danieldk on Friday February 21, 2025 @03:05AM
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Curious: what widely-used (Linux) legacy systems do not have a Rust toolchain?
In the end the question is whether you want to hold back progress for 99.9% of the users because there are still 200 people running Linux on an Amiga with m68k. I am pretty sure that the number of Linux on Apple Silicon users outnumbers m68k and some other legacy systems by at least an order of magnitude (if not more). (There are currently close to 50000 counted installs. [1])
In the end the question is whether you want to hold back progress for 99.9% of the users because there are still 200 people running Linux on an Amiga with m68k. I am pretty sure that the number of Linux on Apple Silicon users outnumbers m68k and some other legacy systems by at least an order of magnitude (if not more). (There are currently close to 50000 counted installs. [1])
[1] https://stats.asahilinux.org