Hi John
yes every one feel sad that the PB development status in the freezer, and even the late BZ setting now in the paradise but he is allowed to work with computers 8 BIT only with 8088 cpu and DOS 2.0 this is because he can't predict while he was in the mundane world the quick advent of the 64BIT computing.
i don't think Eros is able to begin with a new compiler from scratch for too much reasons including he is busy in the work. and the age also play a role, this is my imagination.
there are many talks about Rust https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/ and from the page it support Unicode as explained in the online code execution.
i have installed it and it produce small exe files. but i haven't gone more than "Hello World"
fn main() {
println!("Hello World");
}
the exe size is 150kb
also look Exploring Rust fat pointers https://iandouglasscott.com/
may be Eros , Petr look at it.
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