>outside of hobbyists playing with weird architectures for fun These are also the most likely people to be able to remove dependency on your project making it

>outside of hobbyists playing with weird architectures for fun These are also the most likely people to be able to remove dependency on your project making it less relevant. That's what happened with Gentoo. They didn't bother forking. They found an alternative and python-cryptography is now dead to them. This doesn't even get into what a bad idea it is to build crypto code with mystery binaries like rustc in the first place. Yes, you can bootstrap rust from source if you are really brave/stupid. Nearly nobody does it though, because rust seems purpose built to make you dependent on the official binaries. Building rust version N requires building version 1-N. Latest version is something like 50, which makes bootstrapping it absurd. Memory safety is nice, but Java has been around for decades. Memory safety didn't solve everyones' problems. People still use C for good reasons. Breaking distros won't win Rust lots of friend.