Yes, it's a useful indicator of how portable the software is. I can ignore systems software written in Rust because it only works in places that LLVM targets,

Yes, it's a useful indicator of how portable the software is. I can ignore systems software written in Rust because it only works in places that LLVM targets, and extending LLVM is a nightmarish process. I can ignore software written in Zig because until this year (or arguably last year) it's been a one-man hobby project, worth checking on again in about a decade. For now there are too many weird bugs that pop up if you use platforms different from the main developer. "Written in Go" means I at least have a chance of fixing deployment problems, becausae crosscompiling is easy and the language is fully self-hosted.