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In my limited experience, no. All of the languages you mention put developer experience above portability, so usually require a basic runtime. C on the other hand is not interested in saving you from the machine, which allows for extremely minimal programs. Even C++ isn't great here compared to C. Then again, debugging segfaults isn't for everyone, so most are fine giving up C.

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> All of the languages you mention put developer experience above portability, so usually require a basic runtime.

Rust's runtime is comparable to C's. It is less portable because it uses LLVM as a backend, not because of the runtime.

> Then again, debugging segfaults isn't for everyone, so most are fine giving up C.

Depending on the application, having vulnerabilities due to undefined behavior is a much bigger problem than having to debug segfaults.

then port it to gcc?

We’d love to see a gcc front end for Rust. Someone attempted one in the pre-1.0 days, which was... not simple. Someone has to step up and do it though.

+1 for mentioning Rust. Which in contrast to C++ has all the goodies without the runtime dependencies.

I wouldn't say LLVM is such a great restriction, except when talking about embedded (too few architectures supported here). The major desktop and server architectures are supported (AFAIK), even WASM.

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