that can, for example, run (almost) unmodified on my IBM 5170 as it does on my Lenovo W520. Portability is a lie; it makes me sad!
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Probably we can do better than C with all we've learned about portability in the last 40 years.
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I hope Rust at some point can fill that gap (with it's MIR backend; LLVM is not a good fit for old archs IMO).
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To give credit to the community,
@steveklabnik's sympathy with my concerns is why I have an open mind re: Rust.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
btw
@JakeGoulding has landed some 8/16 but pointer support!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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That just made my day :D!
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mostly 16-bit; but you should be able to copy the pattern for 8 bit. Libcore *almost* compiles for AVR.
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Dream target is 6502/65816 (SNES). I have some interesting leeway there.
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For me, the dream targets are the F18A, VideoCore IV, or Lattice ECP2. Bye bye, C.
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It’s “just” a matter of support in LLVM. The overall Rust changes are pretty light: https://is.gd/fVHhVh
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