> it's nicer than C++ What do you mean by nicer? The tradeoff here seems to be exchanging useful functionality for a leaner, more limited interface. I'm not

> it's nicer than C++ What do you mean by nicer? The tradeoff here seems to be exchanging useful functionality for a leaner, more limited interface. I'm not sure I agree that the right decision is to forsake the full power of the LLVM interface. > can be interleaved with the application you want to compile with the extended compiler. On this we can agree - abstractly, that would be a very powerful thing. Practically, though, what's the cost? How would developers expressively write useful extensions? How do these extensions interact? Answering the hard questions about how this would actually work is going to take some serious thought. > I agree that a higher-level API would be useful, too. For high-level things, but not necessarily for adding goto. I'm not sure goto is all that great of an example, except for the dimension of implementability in a README file.