Comment by audunw

If you read the text in the linked issue you'll see that there they're not entirely removing the LLVM backend. They're just decoupling it from the main binary, so you can still easily use LLVM as a backend if you have it installed on your system.

Makes sense, kind of silly to have to bundle a 100MB+ copy of LLVM if you don't need it for the common case, and if you're a developer you'll probably have it installed already anyway.

The problem could be that it'll be hard to guarantee that your Zig installation works properly with the version of LLVM you have installed? We'll see..