And by the time it's stable, it will be useless for official iOS development, since Apple will require developers to submit apps in LLVM bytecode (they nicknamed it "Bitcode"). For Apple Watch apps, this is already mandatory.
For Apple this makes sense if they want to switch architectures or add additional extensions to their CPU's and not require all developers to re-submit their apps, but it sucks a bit for the darwin/arm64 port of Go. Maybe we'll see an LLVM bytecode target in a few years? Then Go applications could also benefit from LLVM optimizations.
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And by the time it's stable, it will be useless for official iOS development, since Apple will require developers to submit apps in LLVM bytecode (they nicknamed it "Bitcode"). For Apple Watch apps, this is already mandatory.
For Apple this makes sense if they want to switch architectures or add additional extensions to their CPU's and not require all developers to re-submit their apps, but it sucks a bit for the darwin/arm64 port of Go. Maybe we'll see an LLVM bytecode target in a few years? Then Go applications could also benefit from LLVM optimizations.