ARM first & default LDC

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Saturday, 19 December 2020 at 19:51:37 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> Basically, there are problems with DMD, sometimes crashes and 
> has codegen bugs. Codegen bugs is definitely not something you 
> want in a big project because they are time consuming.

Yes, but it is ok for developing a reference compiler, but there 
is no need for ARM support to do that either. One can run x86 
code on ARM CPUs using an emulator for testing. It is a matter of 
setting up a more generic testing environment.

In fact, as was mentioned earlier one could do idealized code gen 
for a virtual machine if front end deveopment was the main issue. 
Might be a good idea actually, regarding CTFE.