Rust core team promotes Linux on 64-bit Arm to Tier-1 supported platform status

Actually, not the core team, as the core team doesn't do decisions like this. This was decided jointly by the compiler, infra and release teams.

Awesome! This is superb news for a wide range of usages, such as AArch64 based Linux systems, Raspberry Pi hardware, Apple silicon, and more.

Meanwhile Intel profits are sinking, Ryzen is thriving, and RISC-V is chugging along.

I hope that some day ppc64{le,be} get there soon. Would love to use openpower based completly open systems. Atleast for the time-being only OpenPower matches or beats the performance profiles of x86_64.

This is the only other Tier-1 platform apart from Linux on Intel x86-64. Given Arm Linux’S astonishingly wide adoption, this bodes well for Rust.

Yeah great, that makes Rust look like a good embedded language.<p>What about AVR though? I have been following the rust-avr fork for litterally years now, and it just got merged. It&#x27;s still highly unreliable though, and Harvard architecture related bugs can make you pull your hairs.<p>If the rust community is going to promote embedded rust, it would be good to invest some effort in a wider spectrum of architectures. The language itself should be mature enough to take a break. Expanding the architecture range would be very welcome by a lot of people.