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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, there are differences in certain x86 command sets. But they actually have a market. RISC-V is just a niche, and splintering in a small niche is making the support situation worse.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

making the support situation worse

The support situation is so bad that both GCC and LLVM have extensive for RISC-V.