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“Program packagers and distributors (frequently separate from project maintainers themselves) are very used to C’s universal presence.”

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pyca/cryptography added Rust and broke builds on Alpha, HPPA and other hobby platforms. The packagers blamed the maintainers. Nobody ever tested the C code on those chips either. It compiled, so everyone assumed it worked. Volunteers owe no support to architectures nobody pays for.