> In exchange [for eliminating the dependency on LLVM], Zig gains these benefits:
> All our bugs are belong to us.
> The compiler becomes trivial to build from source and to bootstrap with only a C compiler on the host system.
> We stop dealing with annoying problems introduced by Linux distributions and package managers such as Homebrew related to LLVM, Clang, and LLD. There have been and continue to be many.
> The Zig compiler binary goes from about 150 MiB to 5 MiB.
> Compilation speed is increased by orders of magnitude.
> All our bugs are belong to us.
> The compiler becomes trivial to build from source and to bootstrap with only a C compiler on the host system.
> We stop dealing with annoying problems introduced by Linux distributions and package managers such as Homebrew related to LLVM, Clang, and LLD. There have been and continue to be many.
> The Zig compiler binary goes from about 150 MiB to 5 MiB.
> Compilation speed is increased by orders of magnitude.
> [...]
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/16270