Yes, and if everybody continues to ignore it because it’s a niche within a niche, it’s doomed to stay that way and probably become extinct.

> it’s doomed to stay that way and probably become extinct

Well yes, it probably is. That's another reason why everyone is ignoring it.

Actually POWER won’t die, because it has IBM behind it and the POWER architecture forms the backbone of their highly profitable mainframe and high-end server business.

What I was referring to as possibly dying was POWER on the desktop generally, and Raptor/Talos specifically.

IBM Z mainframes don’t use the POWER architecture, but have their own z/Architecture instruction set and CPUs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/Architecture

It's not the job of workstation buyers to subsidize niche architectures.

So are the market rules.

I also don't like that some languages have become a niche within a niche with similar consequences.