I could add that the ridiculously fragmented ecosystem of Rust (hundreds of dependencies for every tiny app, static builds of gazillions of incompatible versions), together with numerous incompatible lang standards and total disregard from developers for backward compatibility make it a far more painful case to deal with than almost anything else.
There *is* a portable Rust compiler, mrustc – a few individual developers did better here than backed by the foundation gigantic project. However, due to the reason I pointed above, its practical usability remains very limited. *In a sense,* I got Rust working on PowerPC. Unfortunately, that sense is mostly academic lol P. S. ripgrep on powerpc-darwin: [image: ripgrep.png] On Sun, Jul 5, 2026 at 8:56 AM Link Dupont <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting points I hadn’t considered. Thanks for the explanation! > > Link > > > On Jul 4, 2026, at 10:47 AM, Riccardo Mottola < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Sergey Fedorov wrote: > >> The problem is that rust upstream failed to write a portable compiler. > And gcc does not yet have a working front-end. > > > > perfect explanation. Or having recent rust on 10.11 MacOS, 10.6 or even > PPC wouldn't be a problem. > > gcc could be very promising there. > > > > > >> > >> It is also a bit ridiculous to require LLVM and Rust just to build git. > > > > indeed. Rust has a lot of other shortcomings, trying to reinvent the > wheel; but not the point of this tread, I guess. > > > > Riccardo >
