LLVM IR is pretty easy to work with, and also very heavily documented and standardized. you'll have few/no "surprises" and the process of writing IR transformat

LLVM IR is pretty easy to work with, and also very heavily documented and standardized. you'll have few/no "surprises" and the process of writing IR transformations is pretty well understood. so if you want to transform code, you have a solid base to start from.