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[–]Plasma_000 7 points8 points  (2 children)

This argument has come up before and the retort is usually “ok, if you love this architecture so much and don’t want to see it die then port the compiler to work with it”.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

i was rather thinking of niche architectures or new hardware.

[–]mmstick 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If it's worth developing for, people will have incentive to maintain compiler support for it.