An ARM engineer has written an interesting critique of instruction and encoding choices in RISC-V, and how those decisions can impact implementations: https://gist.github.com/erincandescent/8a10eeeea1918ee4f9d9982f7618ef68
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Zig shipped a RISC-V backend before AArch64!
I think RISC-V is doing really well in the technology enthusiast community.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44222212
The niche of short, environment-specific scripts, and the consequences for programming language design choices: https://brrt-to-the-future.blogspot.com/2021/03/why-bother-with-scripting.html
I've written difftastic packaging instructions: https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/packaging_difftastic.html
The different distros have taken different approaches, so I'm trying to help with common gotchas — don't forget the man page!
Feedback welcome, especially if you've ever packaged something 🙂