My point is that a) half of the work doesn't have to happen because of LLVM's back-/front-end split, and b) if these are architectures that people care about ke

My point is that a) half of the work doesn't have to happen because of LLVM's back-/front-end split, and b) if these are architectures that people care about keeping around and investing in, the benefits of adding LLVM support will go beyond just Rust