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They don't really have anything to do with each other. (There was a project for a LLVM-based compiler for the .NET ecosystem, but as far as I know that never went anywhere)

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Yes. Because dotnet is inherently JIT (e.g. linq expression tree and runtime code weaving and etc.) and you can't do that with llvm. So it was a dead end effort.

Here's a tutorial for implementing JIT in llvm: https://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/BuildingAJIT1.html

Also, there was a plan to AOT compile .NET not only for WASM targets but also for console.

Learned something new. Thank you.

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