There wasn’t historically a C “platform” in the sense you describe it here due to C’s age. Rust built itself around a single “platform“ because Rust was built i

There wasn’t historically a C “platform” in the sense you describe it here due to C’s age. Rust built itself around a single “platform“ because Rust was built in the 21st century. (Python and Ruby didn’t have “platforms” either, but they had uncommonly useful standard libraries.)