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> Adding Rust support would reduce (presently) the number of architectures and platforms that SQLite can target.

I mentioned that but i don't think that's the subject as it does not warrant such a drastic assertion that sqlite can not switch language.

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Ok, yes. SQLite can switch languages if the objective is to cutoff a large number of customers. Until Rust is well-supported on the variety of architectures that C is supported on, then that will be the result.

> Until Rust is well-supported on the variety of architectures that C is supported on

There's no particular reason to think that this will ever happen. SQLite runs on a lot of crazy stuff that Rust won't want to bother with.

For rustc with llvm maybe, but there's projects to build a GCC backend for rustc, as well as projects to build a Rust frontend for GCC, both of which could solve this.

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