Terse comments aren't hard, just bash the OP without offering constructive criticism.
The next programming language to become popular is going to provide some substantial gain in either productivity or performance. It'd be nice to see an argument for or against Virgil on that front.
Unless he went out of his way to use x86, I can't imagine he's not using x86-64. x86-64 has traditionally been the arch that Go has gotten the most attention on anyway, it is what everyone uses these days.