Compiling to llvm brings a giant complicated build time dependency and it is not pleasant to emit it as plain text due to some strange design decisions. People

Compiling to llvm brings a giant complicated build time dependency and it is not pleasant to emit it as plain text due to some strange design decisions. People are also more familar with C, it works on more platforms, and doesn't require any familiarity with SSA. I think you only really need llvm when you want to get into debug symbols.