Documentation should list the supported target platforms so the list can be exported on the site and be accesible to people evaluating Rust as a possible language choice

[eddyp]

[eddyp]

As explained in rust-lang/www.rust-lang.org#627, on the former site there was the supported target platforms https://forge.rust-lang.org/platform-support.html accesible on the old site via https://prev.rust-lang.org/en-US/documentation.html, in the References section.

On the new site the info is not accesible, but is probably best if Rust itself would document this info, then docs.rust-lang-org could have a section to platform support which can link to the relevant info.

(Note: I created this isssue against Rust, as per @nrc 's suggestion in the afore mentioned issue.)

[QuietMisdreavus]

I'm confused. Are you asking for the forge's "Platform Support" link to be included on the landing page at https://www.rust-lang.org/learn (which would mean reopening the issue you did first), or the landing page at https://doc.rust-lang.org/ (which is managed in this repo, but probably affects less people than the original offer), or for a new page to be created in the docs which copies out that page and hosts it outside of the forge?

cc @rust-lang/docs (@rust-lang/website?) it seems the new website doesn't have the link to the platform tier list any more, which was its only mention

[ashleygwilliams]

the website does link to forge, though not super obviously as it's audience is small and forge has less active maintenance (it's eventually consistent, though). you can find the link to the forge site on the install page under other install methods: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install#other-methods

[eddyp]

@QuietMisdreavus in the end, from some obvious place on the site, there should be a link to a page with the tiers list. As per @nrc's suggestion, I requested the list be documented or maintained in Rust so it can be exported to some page to which the mentioned link could point to.

My actual use case is of somebody evaluating if rust covers his/her target platform before starting anything. So this should be available through some obvious page.

[steveklabnik]

re-tagging as infra; such a thing would be on their plate, not the docs team's plate.