Still it sounds like the death of portability.<p>We are kind of crowning the right to rule of the x86 computer industry. llvm is very tied to apple, maybe it can extend to ARM. But it means that some HW platform that may be to old may be difficult to maintain in the future (HPPA, Dec alpha, MIPS, PDP, zseries?).<p>And some computers have life cycle that are more than 10 years. (Expensive industry robots, telco switches, some medical devices,  aeronautic&#x2F;space CPU, radars, some very old mainframe used for accounting, embedded automation devices)...<p>Is this push to obsolescence really cool?<p>Okay critical system already handle the problem, but what about the stuff in the grey zone? Stuff that were not critical but get adopted nonetheless because they just worked and good be updated?