Some other sources of target triples (some mentioned in the article, some not):
rustc: `rustc --print target-list`
golang: `go tool dist list`
zig: `zig targets`
As the article point out, the complete lack of standardization and consistency in what constitutes a "triple" (sometimes actually a quad!) is kind of hellishly hilarious.
> what constitutes a "triple" (sometimes actually a quad!)
It is actually a quintiple at most because the first part, architecture, may contain a version for e.g. ARM. And yet it doesn't fully describe the actual target because it may require an additional OS version for e.g. macOS. Doubly silly.
Why would macOS in particular require an OS version where other platforms would not -- just backwards compatibility?
at least we don't have to deal with --build, --host, --target nonsense anymore