I really enjoy alternative architectures. I had a realization with PowerPC though that the hardware is pretty limited to:
- Old Apple devices which aren’t wearing well (find me G5 iMac or iBook, and it’ll likely need its GPU reflowed/reballed to fix the video and the capacitors replaced)
- Non-Apple PowerPC devices are pretty specialized and hard to locate.
The reasons above are why i transitioned to playing with arm,arm64 (greatly available) and riscv64 (cool factor). I see more value in @PulkoMandy 's SPARC64 work over PowerPC since SPARC hardware, (while old) is still holding its functionality well. (find me a SparcStation which doesn’t still grind away happily)
I make the occasional commit to PowerPC to try and keep our port building, but honestly unless someone picks up work on it, death is likely.