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PowerPC and POWER are relatively mainstream. It's supported by IBM XL, GCC, Clang and most major JITs (including luajit).

• floatboth 7y ago
  > including luajit Well, a fork of luajit. LuaJIT proper has been abandoned for months…
  • ksec 7y ago
    I thought somebody picked up as new maintainer and then Mike Pall was back. What happened? He lost interest?
    • jpfr 7y ago
      No new commits since January. https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT
• squarefoot 7y ago
  Exactly. I can't speak for big iron and server usage because last time I used a POWER based server at work it was still AIX restricted (though IBM was already aiming at Linux for the future), however on PPC about everything user level was available 15 years ago, including USB devices support and compilers. When the very first PPC Mac Mini came out I purchased one to be used as a living room media PC connected to a projector and running a customized Debian which would load a media player (Freevo) just after boot. Worked like charm for years, no complains at all save for the atrocious loud "boonnnngggg" sound at power up that I was never able to turn off:^)