You actually can - https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/lli.html https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/lli.html LLVM's original purpose was something analogous to t

You actually can - https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/lli.html https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/lli.html LLVM's original purpose was something analogous to the JVM, but it's obviously evolved to be more of a compiler platform, debugging toolchain, etc these days (No direct hardware support, though, as cool as that sounds)