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by TUSF 952 days ago
Yeah, LLVM is here to stay for Zig. The plan is to have a custom backend for fast Debug builds for use during development, while emitting LLVM bitcode for release builds that can then be fed to LLVM.

Not linking to LLVM would also make the barrier to entry on contributing to Zig itself lower, because now you can just compile Zig with Zig, and not worry about other dependencies.