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Yeah it seems like most of the responses are against this proposal

For casual readers, it's a proposal, not something decided

Sure, but it's a proposal from Andrew Kelley, the language creator, and it's got a bunch of thought-out subitems that seem to have real progress being made. It seems more likely than not that this will come to pass, unless the community reaction really is heavily against.

I wouldn't assume that just because Andrew has written the proposal it will be accepted. There have been plenty of times where proposals from Andrew have been rejected and/or reworked.

The sub-items of this task are still valuable to complete even if this overarching proposal were declined. Most of them are not being completed as a prerequisite for this proposal. There are benefits gained even without the full removal of LLVM.

I can really respect the really wide-reaching views and goals of Andrew with zig and in proposals like this, even if I don't agree.

I mean, one of the checkboxes under LLVM is literally "optimization passes", so... I don't know how close they are to the end goal in terms of progress actually

I did get quite a hearty chuckle out of that.

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