Comment by Voycawojka

3 days ago

Does Odin compile to C? I thought it only uses LLVM as a backend

No, Odin does not compile to C. It is a standalone programming language that compiles directly to machine code. It primarily uses LLVM as its backend for compiling to machine code, like you said.

Same question but for Jai.

  • Jai does not compile to C. It has a bytecode representation that is used primarily for compile time execution of code, a native backend used mostly for iteration speed and debug builds, and a LLVM target for optimized release builds.