It's an excellent response to the rather dismissive attitude that a subset of developers have about legacy anything. Too many times they don't care about portab

It's an excellent response to the rather dismissive attitude that a subset of developers have about legacy anything. Too many times they don't care about portability and/or correctness, and are happy to dismiss whatever they don't use as irrelevant. They did it when all the world was an i386 (a take on the "all the world's a VAX), and now they're treating even 32 bit x86 the way they used to treat all non-x86. It's not a good look.