[caseyavila]

This does seem quite worrying. I have always loved the Gentoo project because it lets you try to install anything on any architecture (not that it's guaranteed to compile though). In an age where a good amount of our software is theoretically cross-platform, Gentoo serves as a great proof of concept (whereas other distributions just seem to drop support of architectures over time).

Just as an example, I came across a good blog of someone installing Gentoo on an Alpha workstation [0], which I find to be great, seeing as it is officially supported.

Maybe it's just my dogmatic, impractical preference that the software we write should try to work on older hardware, but seeing the entire LLVM ecosystem in this sort of situation makes me sad.

[0] https://cyborgyn.blogspot.com/2019/

[SubjectToChange]

Virtually everything has been dropping support for Alpha, HP/PA, IA64, and the m68k (if it ever had it) for the last few years. I'm glad too, because it's quite hard to test your patches on architectures which are only available on eBay.

Portability is nice but at some point it has to stop. If literally no one is working on LLVM support for an architecture, it's dead.

[cbmuser]

> Virtually everything has been dropping support for Alpha, HP/PA, IA64, and the m68k (if it ever had it) for the last few years.

Nah, m68k is one of the most actively developed architectures. It has very active kernel developers and we're soon seeing an official LLVM backend for the architecture coming (search reviews.llvm.org).

Alpha and HPPA are also actively maintained. IA64 is currently hanging a bit on a string, but we're most likely going to save it for the near future.