> I think this is the wrong way to promote rust
This is entirely the wrong lens. This is someone who wants to use Rust for a particular purpose, not some sort of publicity stunt.
> I know nobody that programms or even thinks about rust. I’m from the embedded world a there c is still king.
Now’s a good time to look outside of your bubble instead of pretending that your bubble is the world.
> as long as the real money is made in c it is not ready
Arguably, the real money is made in JavaScript and Python for the last decade. Embedded roles generally have fewer postings with lower pay than webdev. Until C catches back up, is it also not ready?
> This is entirely the wrong lens.
Telling people they need to take their ball and go home if they're incapable or unable to maintain an entire compiler back-end seems like a, shall we say, 'interesting' lens for a major distro such as Debian.
Just to parse some files?
Just to parse some files there are already tools and libraries for, for added security, without specifying a threat model
These are not officially supported platforms. It doesn't seem that unreasonable for Debian to not want to be restricted to "code that can be run on CPUs from the 1990s" in 2025
It's cool that you can run modern Debian on an Amiga or whatever, but it's not particularly important that that be the case.