Can someone explain why zig is moving away from llvm but in simple way?

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Discuss proposed "File for Divorce from LLVM" #16270

Original proposal: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/16270] This proposal has created quite the discussion on github and I thought it would be appropriate to bring that discussion here to forum. Here is a highlight from the proposal that seems to be garnering a lot of attention/concern: This will remove C++, Objective-C, and Objective-C++ compilation capabilities from Zig. In the near term, the machine code generated by Zig will become less competitive. Long-term, it may catch up or even …

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