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by wiz21c 1117 days ago
> LLVM is however really slow. There isnt much we can do about this except write our own IR compiler, which we would rather not do.

So compilation times are dominated by llvm so there won't be any significant improvement on compilation speed.

> Ki is a statically typed language. It's advantage over most languages is that you cannot have any undefined behaviour.

Java, C, C++ are statically typed. I understand it's not many languages, but they do represent a pretty large share of coders...