Im guessing you'll have two categories of tier 1 support:
- Built-in tier 1 support.
- Tier 1 support through the optional LLVM backend.
If they already have tier 1 support for an architecture, I don't see why they'd loose that support when they make the LLVM backend an optional dependency?
And as Andrew writes in the proposal, this way might provide a path for better support for more obscure architectures. I would happily work on a backend for Zig for some interesting processor architecture. No way I will ever contribute to LLVM. Working with C++ in not something I'll ever do to fun
Im guessing you'll have two categories of tier 1 support: - Built-in tier 1 support. - Tier 1 support through the optional LLVM backend.
If they already have tier 1 support for an architecture, I don't see why they'd loose that support when they make the LLVM backend an optional dependency?
And as Andrew writes in the proposal, this way might provide a path for better support for more obscure architectures. I would happily work on a backend for Zig for some interesting processor architecture. No way I will ever contribute to LLVM. Working with C++ in not something I'll ever do to fun