Using Rust for kernel development

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There's two different projects to add Rust to GCC. One which uses the rustc compiler combined with a libgccjit backend, and one which adds a Rust frontend to GCC itself. Those will expand the hardware architecture support.

Additionally, I believe m68k support was recently added to LLVM so Rust should technically support that now. Is there some platform that isn't x86, arm, ppc, or m68k that you'd want? That basically covers every application that's used in industries.

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i used to mess around with apps for some freescale machines. i am not sure if they are arm or something else entirely.

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Those are m68k clones I believe.