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M3 and M4 haven't been supported yet because they weren't a priority (looks like they've been focusing on gaming support for the last year or so). Alyssa said in her talk that they…

I believe the video decoder (h264 etc) is actually separate from the GPU.

Right now we don't have any support for Android and iOS in particular, but we do support Linux/ARM (regular Linux). It's an interesting use case however. > In my understanding it s…

Supporting GC on WebAssembly has been a _major_ pain for TinyGo because WebAssembly doesn't allow access to the stack. It's really slow and I'm still not confident it's bug free. H…

Not on the heap, but it can certainly have uninitialized variables on the stack. These cannot be created in normal Go code but the optimizer may decide to leave some values uniniti…

Oops, those docs need updating. The GC now works on all platforms (including RISC-V and WebAssembly!) except for AVR because the AVR backend is just too unreliable at the moment an…

That should be possible: there is also experimental AVR support. Experimental because the LLVM backend is unfortunately too buggy to be used in real programs (but is improving!). T…

Hehe, LLVM takes about an hour to compile on my laptop. The compiler itself is not tiny in any way. It really refers to the size of the binaries produced which is usually very smal…

The conservative mark-sweep implementation was the easiest to write: I don't think there is any real GC that is simpler. In the long term, the plan is to add other GCs that are pre…

There are 3 LLVM-based Go compilers that I'm aware of: gollvm, llgo, and tinygo. Of those, only TinyGo reimplements the runtime that causes lots of (code size) overhead in the othe…

https://tinygo.org/usage/important-options/ Take a look at the `-gc` flag. The values have changed in the latest version (need to update the docs!) but it does provide an option to…

I once asked this a cryptographer. His response was that he would do the following things (if I remember correctly): * Discuss the result with a few cryptographers he trusts, to ch…

Yes, there is a fair bit of documentation. But it is nowhere near any popular general purposes language. Also, most documentation isn't very accessible if you're not a compiler dev…

I'm certainly open to PRs :) Good catch on the LICENSE file, I totally forgot about it. I've added it now.

That's pretty cool! If you want something now, I've also written and abandoned this: https://github.com/aykevl/tinygo-gccgo It actually worked fairly well, but the code was way too…

Yeah the heavyweight standard library is a big problem. I'm trying to solve it (in part) with smart analysis that tries much harder to remove dead code and dead global data. Maybe …

I'm using this exactly. It's not the nicest interface but it supports almost everything that LLVM does. https://github.com/llir/llvm looks nice but I don't think you can interface …

Hi, I'm the author of the compiler. All backends supported by LLVM should be fairly easily supported by TinyGo. In fact, I've had the blinky example running on an Arduino a while b…