Odd that you left off the rest of that quote ("...because then obscure targets that nobody uses won't be able to leech off of the rest of the ecosystem by holdi

Odd that you left off the rest of that quote ("...because then obscure targets that nobody uses won't be able to leech off of the rest of the ecosystem by holding back any chance to let us have a modicum of nice things") which links to: https://lwn.net/Articles/845535/ https://lwn.net/Articles/845535/ > Maybe if there were some folks who knew rust and were interested in doing this kind of work In this specific example, "this kind of work" would involve porting Rust to 5+ obsolete CPU architectures. Not exactly rewarding work.