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William Woodruff has posted a
rant of sorts on the adoption of Rust by the Python Cryptography
project, which was covered here in
February.

What’s the point of this spiel? It’s precisely what happened to
pyca/cryptography: nobody asked them whether it was a good idea to
try to run their code on HPPA, much less System/390; some packagers
just went ahead and did it, and are frustrated that it no longer
works. People just assumed that it would, because there is still a
norm that everything flows from C, and that any host with a
halfway-functional C compiler should have the entire open source
ecosystem at its disposal.