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This is such a common fallacy. C exposes lower-level memory management, but to then say "oh now you have pointers you can implement anything" is a push. If you need to implement vi…

> C lets you use OO if you want it Tenuous - if you are willing to implement objects yourself then you could use C sure, but I don't think that means the language "lets you use OO"…

Agreed, I think that the code itself should be readable through better names, with the comments being a bonus rather than critical to the understanding of the code.

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WASM is definitely one to look out for.

While we're here, let's not forget about the incredible Kaleidoscope tutorial. They really helped me get a grip with LLVM. https://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/index.html

Hi, author of the post here. Thank you very much for your kind words!

Yes, exactly. Clang emitted IR especially has a lot of (C/C++)-specific junk. If you look past that clutter, it's not too bad. I think the best way to learn to read IR is to look a…

The command to use is `clang -S -emit-llvm -O1 foo.c` It'll write it out to a foo.ll file. (I use -O1 so it cleans up a bit of the messy parts of the IR).

> learn to write little C programs and use clang to emit the IR. Highly recommend this. I used this to get an understanding of how to implement the IR for my language.

Regarding this post in particular, I chose to document everything in terms of the C++ API as that's the native API. You can use any of the other bindings, and just translate the sy…

Hey, author of the post here. Do I think the C++ API is important? For most languages no. The OCaml bindings in my case were almost sufficient, but I planned to do some memory fenc…

Hey, Author here. This post is just some of the advice I picked up along the way. What advice would you give interns and junior developers starting out in the industry?

Author here. Let me know if you have any questions about the guide to LLVM. Happy to answer questions!