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Coding directly in LLVM IR is tedious. It's supposed to be used via the AST building APIs.


IR is better than assembly

It's a bit of a thought experiment but it's not totally insane. Let's just say that humanoids writing in IR makes more sense than humanoids writing in asm.js Ultimately, IR is an assembly language. By contrast, web assembly is not an assembly language.

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