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Other / Re: A "leisure" question on Wirthian languages.
« Last post by Thaddy on Today at 04:31:05 pm »llvm as such is not a high level language although it is a step above assembler since the same llvm intermediate code can target many platforms with the same code.(in theory)
One thing I did not try yet is to look if I can compile the compiler itself to the llvm backend and back. That would remove the question mark...
Also, although clang is required, that is basically for the toolchain. As far I understand from Jonas, the principal author, clang itself is not used. That in itself is reason to remove the question mark in my opinion.
The requirement to install clang may have put the "question marker" on the wrong foot here: the llvm backend compiles to llvm intermediate code, not to clang. (if the latter was the case the question mark would be appropiate)
One thing I did not try yet is to look if I can compile the compiler itself to the llvm backend and back. That would remove the question mark...
Also, although clang is required, that is basically for the toolchain. As far I understand from Jonas, the principal author, clang itself is not used. That in itself is reason to remove the question mark in my opinion.
The requirement to install clang may have put the "question marker" on the wrong foot here: the llvm backend compiles to llvm intermediate code, not to clang. (if the latter was the case the question mark would be appropiate)