That's true. But FOSS is also about cooperation and Rust in particular is marketing themselves as open and inclusive.
> If someone decides to do stuff in Rust they have every right to do so, and there's nothing their users can do except switch to something else or fork and maintain the code themselves.
And what would Rust developers think if LLVM decided to make such a radical change to their codebase that Rust would no longer be able to use LLVM as a backend? Would also be in favor of an LLVM fork?
> The thing that also annoys me is that the platforms that are going to lose support are either so old or so obscure I sincerely doubt there are more than a handful Gentoo installations running on those.
There is also just a handful of users running Haiku, Hurd, NetBSD as compared to Linux. Yet I have not seen that argument made anywhere.
The nice thing about FOSS is that also smaller voices and groups are being heard. And I think that's great.
> Damn Alpha has been dead for more than 25 years, if you care about it so much you don't want to switch to a still supported architecture you should start invest real money on supporting the software stack yourself.
The nice thing about these old architectures is that they often help expose bugs that remain hidden on main targets. We have fixed a lot of bugs that only became visible on architectures like SPARC and M68k.