[strager]

Good question. The author of Zig claims that dev build times will be amazing. One technique is to avoid LLVM. Another technique is to integrate the linker. But all of that is a work-in-progress project.

[insanitybit]

I'm skeptical. Cranelift was designed to do something similar - avoid LLVM and be fast enough for JIT.

It's easy to claim to be fast when you're extremely early on, we'll see how that holds up.