I’m not in the Debian world, but those do seem to me like the types of systems that could use their own specialized distros rather than being a burden to the mass market ones. It’s not as if you could run a stock configuration of any desktop environment on them anyway.
Does or should debian care? I don't know.
I don’t get the fuzz around the “retro computing” verbiage. I doubt anyone is actually running Debian on these devices out of necessity, someone who plays baroque music in reconstructed period instruments won’t balk at being called an “early music” enthusiast.
But I'm not sure. I think the new Rust dependencies are good. In an ideal world, the people who care about niche systems step up to help Rust target those systems.
I’m actually the person who added the m68k target to the Rust compiler and was also one of the driving forces of getting the backend into LLVM.
Generally speaking, getting a new backend into the Rust compiler is not trivial as it depends on LLVM support at the moment which is why asking someone to just do it is a bit arrogant.
Luckily, both rustc_codegen_gcc and gccrs are being worked on, so this problem will be resolved in the future.
