Imagine if C or Forth had a minimum glibc or kernel version requirement. I think the too-cozy relationship between the stewardship of Rust as a language and th

Imagine if C or Forth had a minimum glibc or kernel version requirement. I think the too-cozy relationship between the stewardship of Rust as a language and the stewardship of the reference implementation is seriously holding Rust back. Minimum requirements for the tool chain effectively mean minimum requirements for the language, and if the minimum requirements for the language are anything beyond bare metal then it isn't ready for prime time as a systems language.