I too am curious about this. I've seen other languages with similar features similar such as Odin and C3 but they used llvm and now Odin is trying to use TildeBackend (from cuik c compiler) as an alternative. What i'm really interested in, is if the risc-like IR is a alternative to llvm.

Cwerg started off as a "Covid side project" with no pericular goal other than seeing how far you can push something that is simple enough be maintained by a single person. Oberon was an inspiration and I'd like to make Cwerg self hosted and maybe work on an OS written in it some day.

In term of features, Cwerg is roughly in the same space as Odin, Zig, Hare, etc. (see https://github.com/robertmuth/awesome-low-level-programming-...) But I am much more willing to sacrifice compatibility for simplicity, e.g. no shared libs, no varargs, no linking with non-Cwerg code etc.

I also feel that compilation speed has not received as much attention in the compiler space as it deserves. Go-lang was one of the first to highlight this recently.

Hard to say. I created this for inspiration:

https://github.com/robertmuth/awesome-low-level-programming-...