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Or maybe this would inspire people to expand LLVM support? There's nothing fundamental that prevents Rust from running on those architectures (as far as I know)
by brundolf 6y ago
Or maybe this would inspire people to expand LLVM support? There's nothing fundamental that prevents Rust from running on those architectures (as far as I know)
- willcipriano 6y agoI don't believe there is anything fundamentally preventing any language from running on any architecture other than "we haven't gotten around to it yet". Can't you emulate any Turing machine inside of any other Turing machine? I'd guess you could run the latest version of Python on anything more advanced than a abacus if you had a couple of lifetimes to waste on the project.
- brundolf 6y agoMy point is that a) half of the work doesn't have to happen because of LLVM's back-/front-end split, and b) if these are architectures that people care about keeping around and investing in, the benefits of adding LLVM support will go beyond just Rust