Typical desktop Linux is compiled with gcc and even if rust features in gcc lag behind rustc this is still a great step in the direction of one of the larger go

Typical desktop Linux is compiled with gcc and even if rust features in gcc lag behind rustc this is still a great step in the direction of one of the larger goals many of us want from rust which is to replace C as a memory safe systems language for OS kernel and embedded projects. A big part of getting a sane environment to build rust Linux modules is having it easily integrate with the gcc toolchain. There seems to be some contention around if this is a good idea for rust as a language itself and my counter to that would be that there are billions of people on the planet and the work integrating rust into gcc doesn't detract in any way I can see from the continued development of rust as a language, it just helps to make it more viable for many use cases and therefore increase it's footprint and overall support.