[hnbroseph]

llvm is the "back-end" of a compiler turned into a reusable library, where the front-end of a compiler is what parses and understands a specific language (clang or rust being examples of primarly front-end things that leverage llvm).

if you make use of llvm, you "simply" have to parse your chosen language and hand off some intermediate form bits to llvm to create compiled binaries.