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Platform support is a non-issue for every library being discussed. This is an array construction macro, it has nothing to do with what operating system you're running on.

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Just because some trees have a specific trait, it doesn't mean the whole forest is the same.

Your argument only works for no_std crates, but the std exists and allows the vast majority of crates to be cross platform out of the box.

I bet there are plenty of them that don't work on IBM i, while Java does fine there.

Just to quote a possible scenario among others.

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