the trouble with "zero abstraction penalty" and "compiles to LLVM" is that you're still paying the penalty of targeting LLVM, which is an abstraction that large

the trouble with "zero abstraction penalty" and "compiles to LLVM" is that you're still paying the penalty of targeting LLVM, which is an abstraction that largely inherits the fraughtness of the C abstract machine; this has also bitten rust in the past