@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @colinsmatt11 @allison @coyote @dushman Nope, having a C compiler is not enough nowadays. I have a couple of PPC-boxes so I know.
For example go is a very popular language and it is considered cross-platform because ARM and Intel are supported, but you can't even build reference toolchain on PowerPC. Well, you can on PPC64LE and you can even jump through several sets of hoops to build it for 32-bit PPC, but won't be able to build anything with it — third party modules aren't that portable.
Go isn't a good system language, it was made for web services and well at most is good enough for small internal tools.
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@colinsmatt11 I also hate the pace at which they change the syntax of the language (In what way any is better than an empty interface? WTF?!!!) so gcc-go as a non-reference implementation always lags behind.
