On: C as an intermediate language (2012)

[lmm]

Again, why couldn't you do that with LLVM IR?

[luikore → lmm]

LLVM IR is designed for machine, not human, it's too verbose, and requires SSA form. A normal person can't easily reason the logic in such verbose language. Plus people are more familiar with C.

[lmm → luikore]

Sure, but you can write your runtime test code in C - or any other language with an LLVM compiler.