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new chips will always have a c compiler available long before anything else

• Avamander 1y ago
  I would assume that an LLVM backend is created for new chips and then C is not the only thing getting support. There's very little point in just supporting C in that sense.
• nicoburns 1y ago
  That doesn't seem to have been an issue for recent new CPU architectures. RISC-V has excellent Rust support for example.
  • camel-cdr 1y ago
    Not really. Rust still doesn't support Arm SVE or RVV intrinsics.
    • nicoburns 1y ago
      I suppose so. I'd see that as more of a missing Rust language feature (SIMD support is still immature) rather than a platform support issue though.
    • pjmlp 1y ago
      Neither does C, the regular ISO C as defined by WG14.
• pjmlp 1y ago
  Alongside a much safer C++ compiler. In 2025 there are hardly single language compiler toolchains being released. Also if the chip toolchain is based on a GCC or clang fork, there are several frontends to chose from.