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by mjburgess 679 days ago
I was immediately thinking of Jai, Zig, .. but I've seen a few
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stefanos82 679 days ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think both Zig and Jai use LLVM as their default backend...at least, that's what I have seen via live streaming for Jai, and from Zig's repo.
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vulcan01 679 days ago
Zig is moving away from LLVM (https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/16270) and Rust has added Cranelift as a debug backend (https://lwn.net/Articles/964735/).

Not sure about Jai.

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stefanos82 679 days ago
I don't think it's moving away, because if you have read the entire thread, the gaming community reacts negatively to say the least and they assure everyone that LLVM does not going anywhere any time soon.
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