[pjmlp]

The idea isn't new, for example Amsterdam Compiler Kit from 1980's.

[mech422]

Ohh...thats a name I haven't heard in a while... along with the purdue compiler construction kit

funny how CLang basically blew right by them in terms of option as a 'base' to build languages on.

[pjmlp]

It was basically dead by the time LLVM became a thing, in this industry we tend to reinvent a lot, pretending it is something utterly new.

Latest example, application servers in WebAssembly.

[arcticbull]

LLVM -- clang is the C language family front-end to LLVM.