[crest]

Didn't Zig "just" decide to permanently stay irrelevant for performance critical code by replacing LLVM by a yet to be written home grown optimiser and code generator? Don't get me wrong LLVM has lots of warts, but the a good multi architecture optimiser and code generator is a larger project than the frontend and standard library for any reasonable language.

[throwawaymaths]

No. They are turning llvm into an "optional dependency", or plugin, or call it what you want. Day to day/debug compilation will be done with their own compiler and if you want you can cut a release with llvm to get all the optimizations when you're done, or at any time really.

Zig won't ship with llvm as part of the standard download, but i imagine it will be easy to get zig+llvm working