ARM first & default LDC

[Max Haughton]

On Thursday, 31 December 2020 at 01:11:10 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
>> - it would probably be easier to do a basic retargetable code 
>> generator from scratch
>
> Everyone thinks that. But not a chance. The last 1% will take 
> 500% of the time, and you'll be chasing bugs for years that the 
> old one already solved.


That was specifically referring to properly adding ARM support 
rather than replacing the backend for the sake of it. I'm not in 
any way under the impression that either would be easy.