ARM first & default LDC

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On Wednesday, 30 December 2020 at 13:30:58 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> I guess you'd first need to define what is ARM for DMD?  Is it 
> ARM or Apple?  Treating both as a distinction would be really 
> important, as the former has more multilib and ABI combinations 
> than there are moons in the solar system.

The key thing is surely to be able to build and run code with DMD 
on the major types of machine that developers are likely to be 
using.  So while broader ARM support is nice, it's support for 
the Apple M1 that should be the priority.  More specialized needs 
are already supplied by GDC and LDC.