Firstly, unless I’m missing something, RISC-V seems to be on Rust’s Tier 2 with Host Tools, which is still way high up in Rust’s support pyramid. Secondly, let

Firstly, unless I’m missing something, RISC-V seems to be on Rust’s Tier 2 with Host Tools, which is still way high up in Rust’s support pyramid. Secondly, let’s assume – in favor of your argument – that for some reason, it’s still not working for RISC-V users. Then what keeps them from volunteering their time, labor, or money, and help make the thing fly and keep it that way? Niche or single-purpose distributions (such as Arch Linux ARM or AmberElec) have been doing just that anyway: those people regularly maintain special patches in order to support their specific target anyway, no matter whether the upstream projects are even interested in their platform, or whether they’re accepting their patches.