In my experience, LLVM has too much code motion for understaffed projects to seriously consider. When I’m developing small languages my goal is to reduce overal

In my experience, LLVM has too much code motion for understaffed projects to seriously consider. When I’m developing small languages my goal is to reduce overall work or, barring that, keep the work constant & get some other benefit. While I always reach for c++ first, I’m under no delusion that it’s a fit language for describing easily portable, easily consumable, and stable API/ABI. For that work, C is the undisputed grand champion. As such, I generally just translate to C. With the vector intrinsics provided by Clang (or GCC), I can still target all the features I need.