Or those annoying nagging "well, what if I don't have an X86_64 CPU that was made in the last five years?", to which obviously our response should be: "get different hardware LOL, closedwontfix"
Or those annoying nagging "well, what if I don't have an X86_64 CPU that was made in the last five years?", to which obviously our response should be: "get different hardware LOL, closedwontfix"
No, supporting 5 year old mainstream hardware is a very reasonable thing to do. Supporting 20 year old hardware that barely anyone used even when it was new is not.
Indeed. Four targets are identified as potentially affected:
alpha, hppa, m68k and sh4
To be fair, lots of people did use Motorola 68xxx CPUs when those were new, it's just that it was 40+ years ago in products like the Commodore Amiga. The SH4 is most popularly connected to the Dreamcast, Sega's video game console from back when Sega made video game consoles.
The Alpha and PA Risc were seen in relatively recent and more conventional hardware, but in much tinier numbers, and when I say relatively I mean early this century, these are not products anybody bought five years ago, and when they were on sale they were niche products for a niche which in practical terms was eaten by Microsoft.
Alpha and PA Risc where the predecessors of Itanium fwiw if you want to feel old in an easy to understand way.
Is your point that rust doesn't run on a computer built in 2020?
No, but that if it did not, I am not so sure that would even be seen as a problem.
Oh, that sounds like a personal ignorance problem. You are in the right place to be educated though!
Feel free to enlighten me. Nothing I have seen thus far indicates anything to the contrary.
Spend more effort on looking before posting then!
I'm not gonna waste effort on a fool's errand. So far, neither claim has been backed up whatsoever.
It's obviously more likely it's just fans of the language with a knee-jerk reaction of "ackshully you're totally definetely wrong, but uh... don't ask me how, you just are" than legitimate talking points.
stay ignant then, keep making stupid claims and asking people to correct them lol
> stay ignant then, keep making stupid claims and asking people to correct them lol
It aint stupid if its the truth lol
Feel free to stay "ignant" though, making stupid claims and refusing to back them up when asked.
Has Linux dropped support for older x86 CPUs?
Yeah, in... late 2012 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/12/292
Rust hasn't either AFAIK.