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Zig shipped a RISC-V backend before AArch64! I think RISC-V is doing really well in the technology enthusiast community. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44222212

Overall it seems like the Rust for Linux is making huge strides. Greg KH is super supportive of it[1] and the wider Linux community is pretty positive[2] (see all the quotes at the end of the slides). 1: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/2025021954-flaccid-pucker-f7d9@gregkh/ 2: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6507-rust-for-linux/

It's a small thing, but I'm much happier with the output of --version in the latest version of difftastic. It shows the release version number, the commit hash, and the commit date. This gives you a sense of the age of release, but you still have a reproducible build (unlike build time). It also shows OS, arch and compiler, because those are common requirements in bug reports.