alt Hacker Newsnew chips will always have a c compiler available long before anything else
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nicoburns • yesterday at 3:15 PM
That doesn't seem to have been an issue for recent new CPU architectures. RISC-V has excellent Rust support for example.
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I would assume that an LLVM backend is created for new chips and then C is not the only thing getting support. There's very little point in just supporting C in that sense.