Comment by Jeaye

I hear you when it comes to C++ portability, ABI, and standards. I'm not sure what you would imagine jank using if not for LLVM, though.

Clojure uses the JVM, jank uses LLVM. I imagine we'd need _something_ to handle the JIT runtime, as well as jank's compiler back-end (for IR optimization and target codegen). If it's not LLVM, jank would embed something else.

Having to build both of these things myself would make an already gargantuan project insurmountable.