[moltonel3x]

You need to have someone, or a group of people, willing to write the code to implement support for modern tooling on their platform. Until then, old harder-to-secure codebases is what these platforms have.

I know reversing the burden of implementation seems flippant, but it's pragmatic. At some stage, it's less community-wide work to support Rust on a new platform than to spend extra time maintaining/securing dozens of C codebases. Curl may not be making its Rust components mandatory anytime soon, but other projects like python crypto already have, to say nothing of projects written in Rust to begin with.

rustc_codegen_gcc is pretty close to ready, let's focus on getting it out of the door, and more target triples supported by rustc and llvm.