1. The reason why things have moved to a bit of a monoculture is because of a lack of portability in software. 2. People have PowerPC and ARMv7 devices that wo

1. The reason why things have moved to a bit of a monoculture is because of a lack of portability in software. 2. People have PowerPC and ARMv7 devices that work perfectly well. People shouldn't have to buy a new device every N years. 3. I also described how Rust doesn't target many operating systems either; it only targets the three mainstream ones. Also, from the comment you replied to: > Alternative platforms are less used partly because they lack some popular software. We don't need to make it harder than it already is to use them.