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Aside from using software that relies on LLVM, I am not at all familiar with its internals. A fellow on another forum was ranting against using LLVM as a backend for security reasons pointing out its sheer size and the fact that it is a "US controlled software stack" [1].

Don't get me wrong, I think he has a very fringe and suspicious outlook on LLVM and the US, but it is a big codebase that would be hard to audit for such things. Would Zig ever be fully independent and auditable by a small team when the break from LLVM is made? Just curious, and I would love input on the LLVM comspiracy topic.

[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/picolisp@software-lab.de/msg095...



90% of your computing stack is US controlled code. What's so different about LLVM

LLVM monoculture is pretty bad though.. and its codebase quality is not very good either. But that's another issue.




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