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@kornel That’s the thing - you’re not asked to choose between “writing software that might run on SuperH (but probably won’t due to speed & RAM requirements) vs being able to write more reliable software that runs better on still-manufactured CPUs”.

You invented those limitations. If you received a problem report about running on SuperH, it sounds like you’d focus more on how “irrelevant” it is, how support is a waste of time, perhaps, rather than focusing on the idea that fixing something, even something that’s an edge case, generally means code is better.

The Rust ecosystem is nice and all, and nobody is saying that anyone should abandon it. Of course you’ll all have your npm moment when crates get backdoored, but that’s just how these things work.

The real issue is that people in the Rust community want to replace everything with Rust versions while dismissing fallout as unimportant because “obscure/legacy”.

Sorry, but no.