> Rust has one: if you commit to using Rust, you're also committing yourself to an LLVM-based monoculture rust currently has only one backend, which is LLVM, b

> Rust has one: if you commit to using Rust, you're also committing yourself to an LLVM-based monoculture rust currently has only one backend, which is LLVM, but their is a working project to build an alternative one for the Cretonne compiler[1] for the «debug» builds, and there might also be a GCC backend for rustc one day if people are interested enough to build it. I'm not aware of any fundamental difficulties that would prevent it. [1]: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/possible-alternative-compiler-backend-cretonne/4275 https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/possible-alternative-compi...