My understanding: As Rust is built on LLVM and not GCC, it is also limited to operating systems supporting LLVM.
GCC simply supports more platforms.
My understanding: As Rust is built on LLVM and not GCC, it is also limited to operating systems supporting LLVM.
GCC simply supports more platforms.
Rust has a GCC backend as well, rustc_codegen_gcc. However, the NonStop platform just has a proprietary C compiler.
MSVC is also proprietary. However LLVM is supported by Microsoft. The developer of Nonstop is apparently not doing that.