The MOS Technology 6502 is one of the most famous processors which was used in a lot of home computers in the 80ies.
Even today it is mostly programmed in assembly. There aren't many compilers available, most prominent one is cc65, a C compiler.
Zig would be in a unique position to be a modern compiler for the 6502 processor family.
The 6502 does not have a huge instruction set, but has a lot of restrictions which makes code generation and optimization hard, but i think it's still worth a try.
Imagine programming your C64 in Zig!
MasterQ32
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My name is Micha毛l Larouche and I fully support this effort
mlarouche
on 2 Oct 2020
May I pretty please have support for the [65c816] (the super-weird 16 bit version) too?
No, I refuse to wait for #65816 to propose it
notCalle
on 2 Oct 2020
This repo may be useful there: https://github.com/c64scene-ar/llvm-6502
Xe
on 2 Oct 2020
@notCalle i think the next up would be #6800 and #68000, even though that is a bit far away
MasterQ32
on 2 Oct 2020
Too bad #80 is already gone, because Z80.
notCalle
on 2 Oct 2020
Also want to point out that the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)(1983) ran on a modified 6502 so support for this arch could enable the writing of NES ROMs in Zig
cpu: https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/CPU
rom format: https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/INES
nektro
on 4 Nov 2020
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May I pretty please have support for the [65c816] (the super-weird 16 bit version) too?
No, I refuse to wait for #65816 to propose it