Oh, I wasn't implying that OBSD or NBSD should adopt Rust as a development language. Not at all.
My point is more that I wouldn't want the Rust developers to spend time on making it able to self-host on 32-bit platforms. I'd prefer they spend their time elsewhere, that's all.
> I'd prefer they spend their time elsewhere, that's all.
And I'm sure the OpenBSD developers would prefer to spend their time on OpenBSD instead of working around Rust's lack of support for a platform that OpenBSD supports. I'm still kind of surprised that when the question of "why doesn't OpenBSD switch to Rust?" and the answer was "because Rust doesn't self host on a platform we support" that the response has been "well drop that platform." How about: no. How about: if someone wants Rust to be a viable option, then they have to adjust Rust to be a viable option, not ask other projects to massively constrain their currently working support of a platform.
I hate to sound like the old geezer, but I get the impression that many people here have no clue about software beyond desktop and mobile. It's like they don't even realize that firmware and operating systems have to be written and maintained on older hardware. There is a lot of software out there running on legacy hardware that the world depends upon which you never see.
My point is more that I wouldn't want the Rust developers to spend time on making it able to self-host on 32-bit platforms. I'd prefer they spend their time elsewhere, that's all.