Comment by apitman

Comment by apitman 19 hours ago

4 replies

My main concern with LLVM is that it adds 30+ million lines of code dependency to any language that relies on it.

Part of the reason I'm not ready to go all in on Rust is that I'm not willing to externalize that much complexity in the programs I make.

lenkite 3 hours ago

The Rust compiler also uses LLVM right ?

  • dubi_steinkek 11 minutes ago

    mainly, but it also supports alternative codegen backends (cranelift, rustc_codegen_gcc)