LLVM ist a mess

Posted Mar 18, 2024 18:02 UTC (Mon) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: LLVM ist a mess by paulj
Parent article: Cranelift code generation comes to Rust

I've written more than one compiler, and I would not count myself as a Fabrice Bellard level developer. You should be able to write a simple optimizing C compiler following a book like this in about 3 months full-time effort if you're a competent developer (less if you're willing to reuse tools like gas and ld rather than doing everything yourself).